Salem - Yin Yu Tang House

Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts

Yin You Tang - an entire house brought from China

“During the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), a prosperous merchant surnamed Huang built a stately sixteen-bedroom house in China’s southeastern Huizhou region, calling his home Yin Yu Tang. … home to the Huang family for more than two hundred years until 1982 when the last descendants moved from the village. … The family’s well-documented genealogy and the accumulation of furnishings passed down through eight generations offer the opportunity to understand historical changes in China as they affect individuals in their daily lives and cultures on a global scale.”  https://www.pem.org/visit/yin-yu-tang

entrance

family's genealogy

cylinder on the right was for containing a small child while the adults worked

below - looking into the cylinder - a wrapped hot stone would be put in the bottom to keep the child warm

heat source carried room to room 

 very fancy bedroom

Click here and here for videos of the house

East Coast - Back & Forth

Leaving Seattle

 flying clear across the country

almost back home

flying north looking west towards Seattle

bottom - Kirkland, then Lake Washington, then Seattle, then Puget Sound

Lake Washington - flying south, looking east

Juanita Bay -middle left; Lake Sammamish in distance

Kirkland top middle under the wing

Seattle on bottom right

 

 home

Morning Routine

Feeding body & spirit

Remembering & Sharing

And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had .....

 Acts 14: 27

Paul and fellow disciples of Christ gathered in Antioch. 

I was impressed with the phrase "all that God had done with them." Rightfully so, we usually talk about what God has done "for" us. It's equally important to remember that God wants to work "with" us. We can accomplish so much for ourselves and others when we choose to be part of His team and let Him work with us. 

Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ want us to remember these experiences and to share them. 

Happy 4th of July

Kirkland's Cow & Coyote

Utah - Transcontinental Railroad

Tour along the Transcontinental Backcountry Byway

Route of the 1869 Transcontinental Railroad - This section was built by the Central Pacific Railroad. Our guide was an archeologist with the state of Utah. The landscape has changed very little since 1869. Trains used the rails until 1942. The rails were taken up and vehicles can now drive on the original grade. 

archeologist Chris Merritt (middle)

Some trestles aren’t safe for cars so the road detours around them

Merritt showed us artifacts from the Chinese section of Terrace

 

stone culverts allowed water to flow under the railroad tracks

Peplin Cut

Great Salt Lake in the distance

our group of 50 took over this small cafe in Snowville, Utah

They did know we were coming 

Read more about the railroad and byway here and here
Chinese workers - here and here
Very informative articles here and here