Today’s Qiao Household 目前的喬家大院

This is what the Qiao household looks like today. It is a really large household complex that looks somewhat like a maze 有一點像迷宮. There are also crowds of tourists there on most days so that it is easy to get lost in the crowds and that’s what happened. It was dry there and flat as land as well, not quite desert but close. Shanxi province is drier than Beijing 比較乾 and we could really feel that when we were there.

My wife wandered off to find the bathroom as we were getting to the bridal chamber 洞房 and it was a while before we found her again. After our tour, she did get a nice jade tea mug with the characters for Qiao Household carved into them 有’喬家’ 這兩個字刻在玉石的茶杯上. Our son had the easiest job as one of our fellow tourists pointed out. He was pushed up and around all the hallways in the stroller.