I have been asked by more and more people now to post pictures from the new house up online. I have posted the pictures that B and I took last night as part of our home inspection.
I will leave B to make comments on individual photos.
http://picasaweb.google.com/kugreg/PrescottHouse
Hope everyone enjoys!
My trip to China is now a set of memories. It was a combination business and pleasure trip and full of fantastic experiences. Of course IBM paid most of the freight. The route was St. Louis to Chicago to Shanghai to Beijing. The business and sightseeing were in and around Beijing. Not so sad to say, I missed the experience of lugging my luggage long distances, up mountains. 
I went to teach local IBMers about the product I support, the DR550. The business portion was Monday through Wednesday. Thursday and Friday were sightseeing days. A friend from the Bay area and I visited the Forbidden City (where the Ming and Qing Emperors, Empresses, royal concubines, eunuchs, and other royal personages lived), Tiananmen Square, and a market called Silk Street (best described as a 5 story, massive bazaar) on Thursday. On Friday we visited the Great Wall (man, are portions of it steep!), the Ming Tombs, a jade working factory and outlet store, and a vase factory and outlet for the vases, more jade goods, silk, and many other types of goods all at a great prices. Unfortunately, it was very foggy for most of the time we were at the Great Wall so most of the pictures are so-so. I got over 150 pictures from the sightseeing excursions. Pictures are:
1) One of the larger of many palaces in the Forbidden City, 2) Tiananmen Sq., 3) Great Wall, and 4) One of the Ming Tomb buildings.
Beijing is safe, and the people very courteous. Of course it’s crowded as you’d expect of a city with 17 million people. There’s very little litter but the air quality is terrible. I wouldn’t want to be an Olympic athlete competing here next year unless they really get some control of the pollution. I would recommend Beijing as a great place to visit but not during the Olympics and at a time of year when pollution is not so bad (if there is such a time).
I have been out to the STL area many times, taken many pictures, but I have to say, this one has got to be one of my favorites.
(Many of my other favorites are hilarious photos of Becky being silly that I would get yelled at for posting)
Hey, this is Rachel. I just wanted to let you know that I’ve started up a WordPress blog to post stuff about us (someone more WordPress savvy want to put a link to it on the “blogroll,” please… thanks 
). So to commemorate my first post on the Henkhaus Family Blog, I wanted to share with you one of my favorite pics from our wedding of us: K&R-Wedding. Hope all is well with you, family.
Since Mom and Dad might feel that the other family member has been excluded from the blog…check this out
