Hainan

 On Friday, April 15, Theresa and I left Suzhou to take a short vacation on the island of Hainan.  (That would be the reason for the lack of postings lately.)   We spent 4 days on the island, in the city of Sanya.

Hainan is the southern-most province in China.  The island is located in the South China Sea at about the same lattitude as Puerto Rico and Acapulco, Mexico.  Over the past 15 years, Hainan has turned into a hot tourist spot.  In fact, it is the only place in China that you can visit without obtaining a visa beforehand.  Sanya is at the southern-most tip of Hainan, and happens to be the hottest of the hot tourist spots on the island.

The trip was actually organized through the "Welfare Committee" at work.   Several times a year, the welfare committee organizes group trips to various spots in China.  They were organizing this trip to Hainan at about the time that I arrived.    So I signed up with Theresa to go with them.   It was the two of us and about 35 others from the plant site.

So, the next several entries will be stuck on the topic of this vacation.  I took too many pictures and have to find a use for some of them.