tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1212215841768537322023-11-16T02:58:34.915-08:00Visting Star StarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-19161224079540719902009-05-11T11:43:00.001-07:002009-05-11T23:55:48.454-07:00Thanks everyone for being part of this blog. I had so much fun sharing with you all, I looked forward to adding to it and seeing your comments every day. When I took photos and asked questions it was often with you in mind, thinking, oh, they'll enjoy this - I know I am.<br /><br />I'm back state-side, our return trip was easy and uneventful. Trev and Kari and Dylan met us at LAX and took us out to dinner to help fill in the 4 hour lay-over I had before the hop to Phoenix. They took us to In-and Out, a move inspired by their many trips out of the country and consequent understanding that there is nothing like an American hamburger anywhere but here in the good old USA.<br /><br />It was right under the touch down pad for the jets too, and we sat outside so both Dylan and Guy could be entertained while we ate. Guy stayed the night in Santa Monica and drove over this morning, while I caught a flight and got back just before midnight.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Leeannette</span> and Haven greeted me this morning with joyous hugs and kisses and Jerome and Olivia left roses in our room. Amazing homecoming. Olivia was busy while I was gone cleaning our carpet and making our "nest" as Guy and I call it, beautiful. When <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Leeannette</span> saw the room this morning with my suitcases flung open and dirty clothes on the floor she creased her little eyebrows and addressed me with a stern look.<br /><br />"Mommy cleaned your room once. She's not going to do it again, you know." <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Haha</span>.<br /><br />We were sad to leave Sky and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Yue</span> Li and little Star Star, but two things console us. One, we know now they are not so far away and the trip is easy and pleasant so we will be back. And two, there's no doubt in our minds that little Star Star will be fine for awhile without us. :) Sky and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Yue</span> Li are excellent parents, and baby Star is surrounded by people who adore her. Her far away relatives here, and the ones who never put her down in China.<br /><br />Check out these photos. None of the ones where she is being held are posed. It's just <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">every time</span> I turned around someone was cuddling her. They literally fight to hold her, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Yue</span> Li often has to say no, because she's nursing or the baby is sleeping and she <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">doesn't</span> want her to wake up. Honestly, they line up to wait their turns. Now that's a loved baby.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-71468865598613401512009-05-09T19:07:00.001-07:002009-05-11T23:56:01.224-07:00Huong Xing Xing Star Star Gail Rose Shelton<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2XWVvz348-KSiMId6q_ji5ShiE2hgdgl-GHixZERBbF2aqTG2_6L_mwtNUwXC676DMoYHZRx1U_UpuFNuqg1bk0G3nBc2Th_2-O0PeVnv0vykjo3U-9h_7PiB7xpFvJGiUkbvu8jm8L7g/s1600-h/P5080016.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2XWVvz348-KSiMId6q_ji5ShiE2hgdgl-GHixZERBbF2aqTG2_6L_mwtNUwXC676DMoYHZRx1U_UpuFNuqg1bk0G3nBc2Th_2-O0PeVnv0vykjo3U-9h_7PiB7xpFvJGiUkbvu8jm8L7g/s400/P5080016.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334013215734793506" border="0" /></a>Grandma and grandpa.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5SWNVQlcAD16fWT352hMfuMHc7g93uad6ibrBKU9-LAujAVdFgDwVJQ6EzJVenJvkjGR-H-aV7kTHvQ7ZvsIDzVkon3dJ3VBCTqbm4IxJQu6ccFgSk7lEZ2iLg2beEGQ_4bOVxpntK96A/s1600-h/P5080018.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5SWNVQlcAD16fWT352hMfuMHc7g93uad6ibrBKU9-LAujAVdFgDwVJQ6EzJVenJvkjGR-H-aV7kTHvQ7ZvsIDzVkon3dJ3VBCTqbm4IxJQu6ccFgSk7lEZ2iLg2beEGQ_4bOVxpntK96A/s400/P5080018.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334013214136893618" border="0" /></a>Cousins.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja_E7VmbJKFPhyphenhyphenXIURzUxSQyfxk7Ac_6jfmnOQr7LY7Hq5tR2Bb5QMi1wn-1CIq_6zlr-jHKmOEJHaCh7AraRLLiugy3cx3dLU84aDtiiGw9V-DqIw5QAHnEmdsF_VLhz-Y6mE7JViD8KJ/s1600-h/P5080021.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja_E7VmbJKFPhyphenhyphenXIURzUxSQyfxk7Ac_6jfmnOQr7LY7Hq5tR2Bb5QMi1wn-1CIq_6zlr-jHKmOEJHaCh7AraRLLiugy3cx3dLU84aDtiiGw9V-DqIw5QAHnEmdsF_VLhz-Y6mE7JViD8KJ/s400/P5080021.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334013209226953858" border="0" /></a>Auntie's and great-aunt.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn1qsIS50Pmh3MkHqQ6JhXgJ3U1TEkFTol-kB-TKpNJwyNgImBqsIBhO2z65cir3gr-CbM2v9tK5ySRKk_umOCk324UjiO6jj9sAxI3PIoxud2xP1TMbyHImrhyphenhyphenO0rhgYsobFakqWN7x7F/s1600-h/P5090024.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn1qsIS50Pmh3MkHqQ6JhXgJ3U1TEkFTol-kB-TKpNJwyNgImBqsIBhO2z65cir3gr-CbM2v9tK5ySRKk_umOCk324UjiO6jj9sAxI3PIoxud2xP1TMbyHImrhyphenhyphenO0rhgYsobFakqWN7x7F/s400/P5090024.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334013203380899474" border="0" /></a>Family at grandma and grandpa's.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizH5yWPJg421bGMbWQhfWredZ5zqFne8ooMtaKP8nL6My6ePrwx8vCgAglIuk4BwslLc4bOhFtUrK3Ff4BARmkPOUunZ8JdMRl4rrF0MxQA6ckKqsaEmyg85rMfIMz31_TcX7Ye6rKC02C/s1600-h/P5090029.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizH5yWPJg421bGMbWQhfWredZ5zqFne8ooMtaKP8nL6My6ePrwx8vCgAglIuk4BwslLc4bOhFtUrK3Ff4BARmkPOUunZ8JdMRl4rrF0MxQA6ckKqsaEmyg85rMfIMz31_TcX7Ye6rKC02C/s400/P5090029.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334013199910475682" border="0" /></a>Uncle holding Star Star.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY5qAosFcuOmyipeaH5bpYYyWXEvYmvV3GxzuFd9maXmO-N73wcNSDTy6XTPO6EbexPIvW5bZ56hyphenhyphenbY5jbwfy-_KCDwBaC0J_eDlXTX40qsuMbdcBlhF7F5YwljCvK1STqQZbyNZi1n42N/s1600-h/P5080012.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY5qAosFcuOmyipeaH5bpYYyWXEvYmvV3GxzuFd9maXmO-N73wcNSDTy6XTPO6EbexPIvW5bZ56hyphenhyphenbY5jbwfy-_KCDwBaC0J_eDlXTX40qsuMbdcBlhF7F5YwljCvK1STqQZbyNZi1n42N/s400/P5080012.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334012024716780802" border="0" /></a>Auntie (great-aunt) holding Star Star.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLegPL8GxsMEPdwLOtttiYm7LdeI_YW9uHGfM9tDSgK6sMnhpc_I6BgoJe7z1d_su87uf7i1R1kSqy0tHzDJ9PMI22nx95zYgBa5fsy33VD__d_O8y2bG5DIsmcjegyBFPoFuQTwGRDOHa/s1600-h/P5080011.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLegPL8GxsMEPdwLOtttiYm7LdeI_YW9uHGfM9tDSgK6sMnhpc_I6BgoJe7z1d_su87uf7i1R1kSqy0tHzDJ9PMI22nx95zYgBa5fsy33VD__d_O8y2bG5DIsmcjegyBFPoFuQTwGRDOHa/s400/P5080011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334012011966414578" border="0" /></a>Aunt.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx2lLT4tghRPX-p569n3SRPCPvFTBZV6GJRV2MM7OynUQlMS4kvKu20at4ECwfcq_CMiL8Jr9o6rCb0SjLp2RAZpatgIS855zckOXEbp8ORfBz6CpRrwc26JGjtG9pZYmBNiJmpnu6vibk/s1600-h/P5080010.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx2lLT4tghRPX-p569n3SRPCPvFTBZV6GJRV2MM7OynUQlMS4kvKu20at4ECwfcq_CMiL8Jr9o6rCb0SjLp2RAZpatgIS855zckOXEbp8ORfBz6CpRrwc26JGjtG9pZYmBNiJmpnu6vibk/s400/P5080010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334012011611111906" border="0" /></a>Uncle.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIxIj-7JE976lLRb7Zacu1qz9wWEUdVDD-MPPe1z-f0M0Nzj_lC9S1ufoUQXp7H3nr-yEqyMYrn9Z-3SO1ZmrQtpzb25_7UGjVxEZp2DD6E4thSyZhpBMkEHJm_ULKjrzGDfd0OI9WTMg/s1600-h/P4280010.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIxIj-7JE976lLRb7Zacu1qz9wWEUdVDD-MPPe1z-f0M0Nzj_lC9S1ufoUQXp7H3nr-yEqyMYrn9Z-3SO1ZmrQtpzb25_7UGjVxEZp2DD6E4thSyZhpBMkEHJm_ULKjrzGDfd0OI9WTMg/s400/P4280010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334012004822625890" border="0" /></a>Papa G.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY3jWndsbQlo1BZmFMo6e1RqZizwZS97XAZJiUTOP2FphddLjOK1pOWuNhhb8PGopm8kcYofbkFUwJf7n5Y11TXfeTG9OXlMq8SXoEHpizHlOpMbT8vvhTXYbMXOAn7Vo1UUV5M483JQcB/s1600-h/DSC00734.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY3jWndsbQlo1BZmFMo6e1RqZizwZS97XAZJiUTOP2FphddLjOK1pOWuNhhb8PGopm8kcYofbkFUwJf7n5Y11TXfeTG9OXlMq8SXoEHpizHlOpMbT8vvhTXYbMXOAn7Vo1UUV5M483JQcB/s400/DSC00734.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334012004319723458" border="0" /></a>Nana. And this clip below. She loves music so much even at six weeks it's a guaranteed smile if you sing to her.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwOiSGLfLIxUjomcXwESyLQWYpgYtLln0m5i79VwVrqZgkTTMp2IKsoQjou_JsTTKdKUtyW3saibLDZklDfBw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-73679318036315062072009-05-09T19:01:00.001-07:002009-05-11T12:05:46.376-07:00Performing arts theater at the Red Cave<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJHmWDGqRahbJg2xdSsWtRTYtbLxePnpYQgyNgG9Tv7PrI8IPADr2h2XVkzXELIBsWm3zuGUo19LTlkWWop9hu8QFF0B0zTz0XEAmuEhy6on5W7q0USntjbR2VV5xSpTtbuB8Em1A3-XIE/s1600-h/P5080008.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJHmWDGqRahbJg2xdSsWtRTYtbLxePnpYQgyNgG9Tv7PrI8IPADr2h2XVkzXELIBsWm3zuGUo19LTlkWWop9hu8QFF0B0zTz0XEAmuEhy6on5W7q0USntjbR2VV5xSpTtbuB8Em1A3-XIE/s400/P5080008.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334010630766122578" border="0" /></a>This was a special treat Yue Li took me to Friday night. The theater I took photos of earlier in the blog runs a ballet performance that Yue Li was in prior to Star Star. It tells the story of three love affairs set in three different time periods of Chong Ching history.<br /><br />The manager, a good friend of Yue Li's, got us front row tickets and here Yue Li takes me for a backstage tour and shows off the baby at the same time.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieAM5oBXmSMnmChEb0gMszOnaPZQnHx5qZqGP3UsICjP822AC_MTSYC-fQ-Ku8fpSDm3YezUVeqkmxulQlpLNO1p4FsNhP2ptWIXvIEN8V2xu_CWGHKUCUzOEQH2u8I5X1_cN1LolQyxsH/s1600-h/P5080007.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieAM5oBXmSMnmChEb0gMszOnaPZQnHx5qZqGP3UsICjP822AC_MTSYC-fQ-Ku8fpSDm3YezUVeqkmxulQlpLNO1p4FsNhP2ptWIXvIEN8V2xu_CWGHKUCUzOEQH2u8I5X1_cN1LolQyxsH/s400/P5080007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334010632090734082" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhA-YDhYainFap1qpbf0v7MjV1DlvqCIOJ5CJBCDiP5Dev5BJFWXUpb8v16LNTnDCBr1z9PoMDwNRfAIRUk1hyrqw2BXd9QgI4a2qqky1JVMgfALdLfWP52d7UKb-NO1dePm5q4K2D7iPu/s1600-h/P5080006.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhA-YDhYainFap1qpbf0v7MjV1DlvqCIOJ5CJBCDiP5Dev5BJFWXUpb8v16LNTnDCBr1z9PoMDwNRfAIRUk1hyrqw2BXd9QgI4a2qqky1JVMgfALdLfWP52d7UKb-NO1dePm5q4K2D7iPu/s400/P5080006.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334010625091531618" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXg55cQrocw_1_ywJaEMMivBs9sZH0hK07JDKgaEG_rVEO0WQHMSZYFutCPUtHRyKYlI84rcAzOAdIJ9kMjt0Lo94vhUNAPDa32-vnvM_BrlIj-wQ9xOljjTadU1K5q14aoI9kGdO7-bpz/s1600-h/P5080005.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXg55cQrocw_1_ywJaEMMivBs9sZH0hK07JDKgaEG_rVEO0WQHMSZYFutCPUtHRyKYlI84rcAzOAdIJ9kMjt0Lo94vhUNAPDa32-vnvM_BrlIj-wQ9xOljjTadU1K5q14aoI9kGdO7-bpz/s400/P5080005.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334010620954734386" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ZCq93DBbKfTiYGoCxMUkwnOtKrzoap5xqIpbZ6tRnROHBTeeLYc6ojClb2hobZA4-C4xzGlxi7gfFLoSeeIVH9BlEsj42pg0rqxl26GLQQFLFwuMv1xgs5dkdKBnVyAEDVQnT9Q371Qw/s1600-h/Copy+of+DSC00952.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ZCq93DBbKfTiYGoCxMUkwnOtKrzoap5xqIpbZ6tRnROHBTeeLYc6ojClb2hobZA4-C4xzGlxi7gfFLoSeeIVH9BlEsj42pg0rqxl26GLQQFLFwuMv1xgs5dkdKBnVyAEDVQnT9Q371Qw/s400/Copy+of+DSC00952.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334010616144295794" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-32325017096785207762009-05-09T05:50:00.001-07:002009-05-09T18:24:50.346-07:00Hot Pot<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJWVvH_UyUPV2NATOnw20wtEXNgMZ3czin9j9l8Xo6YORLq1CrIewK0YpDziQ2SLUNHyEON9z4ZKrKbrUV_m9IzTg45U5V2pSKfljEsC8z-L0WITvsYKV5Dv9zuZ6F4h92g5cX2osBsbqZ/s1600-h/P5070044.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJWVvH_UyUPV2NATOnw20wtEXNgMZ3czin9j9l8Xo6YORLq1CrIewK0YpDziQ2SLUNHyEON9z4ZKrKbrUV_m9IzTg45U5V2pSKfljEsC8z-L0WITvsYKV5Dv9zuZ6F4h92g5cX2osBsbqZ/s400/P5070044.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333834182360582850" border="0" /></a>Hot Pot, which originated in Chong Ching, is, um. A unique experience that I think you have to come over and experience yourself.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb6B_9Z64I41iuSUNrbMf73b-ntwWKHDZryM0yuKk_LgRAEK61yt0-d38I8hToPRNrZIU2656wkdoLp9Hfyw3V1S5DdKa8sOmmCYyaLyzmgdkdKPb-z9oY40DepHE9HvChWvrksccQcI6r/s1600-h/P5070045.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb6B_9Z64I41iuSUNrbMf73b-ntwWKHDZryM0yuKk_LgRAEK61yt0-d38I8hToPRNrZIU2656wkdoLp9Hfyw3V1S5DdKa8sOmmCYyaLyzmgdkdKPb-z9oY40DepHE9HvChWvrksccQcI6r/s400/P5070045.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333834178073705202" border="0" /></a>Briefly it's boiling oil filled with peppers and spices in which you dip and cook various foods. The bowl on the inside is boiling oil without the spices. And for children and people like me, you get a bowl of water in which you can bath your food of the hot spices before you eat it.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieMAMXiuQ_hugZhGRVca7XV_ze8cePlWylUon3EItiIkwhMU_VgB1VCasNL1STpKFKbEG_ZkmzZRbaMgdG_8vBWbN_ye8dFfwFR4s5BQ9WzhyWyoGrT7ey2bH3Q08XM8erf4eIEBfqJLE-/s1600-h/P5070043.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieMAMXiuQ_hugZhGRVca7XV_ze8cePlWylUon3EItiIkwhMU_VgB1VCasNL1STpKFKbEG_ZkmzZRbaMgdG_8vBWbN_ye8dFfwFR4s5BQ9WzhyWyoGrT7ey2bH3Q08XM8erf4eIEBfqJLE-/s400/P5070043.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333834172201302866" border="0" /></a>Here is Guy trying to understand it all. He gets very serious when trying to understand food.<br /><br />Summing it up, it's a whole cultural experience that takes place in echo-y restaurants filled with large groups of people having a really good time which makes the sound deafening and really fun because people are laughing and fighting over food that they put in the pot and lost to someone else and Yue Li informs us when we're done that she always has to wash her clothes when she gets home due to the grease smell. Haha. Kind of like going to McDonalds only a lot more fun.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-40746704799525266412009-05-09T05:46:00.003-07:002009-05-15T18:08:18.925-07:00Meet May May<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsFP76dzB2xDJ3pCegUn3EaSAabQ-KTOH7yDzBlaXGU7XI8cM3cVFX9Qyn232gjuvI3ob3PfEEMwab7g3RVO6-dYCAw9Y6nujDPVIvC-47493RmnlYsA0IcApj2xPISVKZYH9xSbAbGLDW/s1600-h/P4240031.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsFP76dzB2xDJ3pCegUn3EaSAabQ-KTOH7yDzBlaXGU7XI8cM3cVFX9Qyn232gjuvI3ob3PfEEMwab7g3RVO6-dYCAw9Y6nujDPVIvC-47493RmnlYsA0IcApj2xPISVKZYH9xSbAbGLDW/s400/P4240031.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333820036191308002" border="0" /></a>This is May May, Cuddle's Chinese cousin. I promised her a spot on the blog when I heard that she takes the bus by herself. When she spends time with Yue Li's dad, he often lets her trail along (that is, without a leash) when he visits friends and shops to which he takes the bus. One day May May went missing, and since she was in the habit of escaping to the bus stop Mr. Huang started his search there. After checking two of his customary stops, he found her. Apparently she'd been hanging out with some of his cronies, coming and going on the bus at will.<br /><br />She does the same with the elevator in the kid's building. Each floor has an open trash can for the tenants to put their trash that May May is especially fond of raiding. Yesterday Yue Li reported that she had gotten off and on the elevator at the 15th, 22nd, and the 32nd floor. How did Yue Li know? She went downstairs to the office and watched the security cameras.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgftV63T9nlc79erup-XlYvjBytglsMHyrcuRq19p0Setzczqhyphenhyphenzvu__3DeTz5hFT9B4G63_31dxJ9a-3po6YvpffVK45m5apcSzzyqVF-iQ63S3EonvzuTrmss-dvaPK7O_rHcEi8-Jt8I/s1600-h/DSC00813.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgftV63T9nlc79erup-XlYvjBytglsMHyrcuRq19p0Setzczqhyphenhyphenzvu__3DeTz5hFT9B4G63_31dxJ9a-3po6YvpffVK45m5apcSzzyqVF-iQ63S3EonvzuTrmss-dvaPK7O_rHcEi8-Jt8I/s400/DSC00813.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333820034623901394" border="0" /></a>Best friends. When baby Star cries May May paces the floor with me as I console the baby and barks at me. "Do something!" is her clear message.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHHgB-sp_p-Ma6-3DliitBRNlHa0FXPXSWbys6QTaY-1OVau5HTUKQxe2Yw1qHrlVunCPhvxKEGk8qM73lviB-wpZavTIh3qGXp4Dogo6levlHi0XZSvaMI5WEb7BwCGK4p5PQp0TNA9Zz/s1600-h/DSC00812.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHHgB-sp_p-Ma6-3DliitBRNlHa0FXPXSWbys6QTaY-1OVau5HTUKQxe2Yw1qHrlVunCPhvxKEGk8qM73lviB-wpZavTIh3qGXp4Dogo6levlHi0XZSvaMI5WEb7BwCGK4p5PQp0TNA9Zz/s400/DSC00812.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333820030699910146" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvXTomfF8HYLekZzDeoeK6lAos0VO_pqjK80o52Df7L2kHwK5OusibRbrXgBmNlXoyBPH2yeAUCm-fUAzEdjS0u6DAYyGm4e6iRDljLeDpFkunOTH66XsC9gQfhP0PWfSjTIlATE5yr27U/s1600-h/Copy+of+DSC00791.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvXTomfF8HYLekZzDeoeK6lAos0VO_pqjK80o52Df7L2kHwK5OusibRbrXgBmNlXoyBPH2yeAUCm-fUAzEdjS0u6DAYyGm4e6iRDljLeDpFkunOTH66XsC9gQfhP0PWfSjTIlATE5yr27U/s400/Copy+of+DSC00791.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333820025000849698" border="0" /></a>She does frog dog like all Bichons.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYLHNThnx3jL3H0EcDr2vp9tx2-mt1iGT5WgN3f3zWDATDJ5-aPORzgwgZv4wGuzstytsk6r-d7j5GOWtAGGJJ93u6PDG-51d134K0ExnblOhAYBMmtgfoceox6QsFAtxeulqlIjjeBOU7/s1600-h/DSC00887.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYLHNThnx3jL3H0EcDr2vp9tx2-mt1iGT5WgN3f3zWDATDJ5-aPORzgwgZv4wGuzstytsk6r-d7j5GOWtAGGJJ93u6PDG-51d134K0ExnblOhAYBMmtgfoceox6QsFAtxeulqlIjjeBOU7/s400/DSC00887.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333820021003333282" border="0" /></a>Checking out the second delivery of eggs from Yue Li's auntie. 200 this time.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpN14eg3Xzv7ADb_O-mIjGKJZbCmjyxxc6qKncsmmmZTo7RrtrXRvlRZENEUaWJ7GNTalYkD2kgBrjbYZwV-vhaZumciKxdOROWJITBF1dcFff7DhvGZNgDxf7PvKeTnaPGbiFw9YnFZKJ/s1600-h/P4240001.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpN14eg3Xzv7ADb_O-mIjGKJZbCmjyxxc6qKncsmmmZTo7RrtrXRvlRZENEUaWJ7GNTalYkD2kgBrjbYZwV-vhaZumciKxdOROWJITBF1dcFff7DhvGZNgDxf7PvKeTnaPGbiFw9YnFZKJ/s400/P4240001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333815408534035202" border="0" /></a>The black poodle belongs to Mr. Huong. All the dogs love him.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_VSe-3JCemvbNzm8L0YM64svs1WTK_rmeplSWs6Fz9QFCM2KaB4524RnI01cpnpW0vp1sGkHZCM8zyzS41MOB-jdVFczNkFf2J9koNWDPwMTSKuPDQtY3kialxg21UAzOLur1ht0mJIrC/s1600-h/DSC00913.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_VSe-3JCemvbNzm8L0YM64svs1WTK_rmeplSWs6Fz9QFCM2KaB4524RnI01cpnpW0vp1sGkHZCM8zyzS41MOB-jdVFczNkFf2J9koNWDPwMTSKuPDQtY3kialxg21UAzOLur1ht0mJIrC/s400/DSC00913.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333815401942081826" border="0" /></a>And of course there is Gwi Gwi, who, although he does not take the bus by himself is interesting for his own reasons. I can't think of any right now but I will tell you he has his own bedroom under the couch.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAV_zPQELuWO03UU_mAlJenf6m2Enwxpb0yMbRloE-XUV1r-bApb4BndOTi-2YEY82hf9SW7-TvLaFaWWFgPBiXF-FuBr-tJLhX-nlECXwChwsXw4Klai3H6qE9VaYB2tPcGKtsFiCu2_l/s1600-h/DSC00882.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAV_zPQELuWO03UU_mAlJenf6m2Enwxpb0yMbRloE-XUV1r-bApb4BndOTi-2YEY82hf9SW7-TvLaFaWWFgPBiXF-FuBr-tJLhX-nlECXwChwsXw4Klai3H6qE9VaYB2tPcGKtsFiCu2_l/s400/DSC00882.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333815400933058226" border="0" /></a>It's a tight squeeze which requires him to slither in on his belly.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_2hbtH1PxSdNG0ot1o-wRkr6zBe3w6sfsjWDLAPzGDMhpWFUtCnPp5bYddX6EHbFchCllGJbU8P7WRSdE9xiLqZ6CFxbYr3BxJjM3UeXLoYgacWtTakyMNdX_yWA2arjJ3F_CHCBp8p3F/s1600-h/DSC00883.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_2hbtH1PxSdNG0ot1o-wRkr6zBe3w6sfsjWDLAPzGDMhpWFUtCnPp5bYddX6EHbFchCllGJbU8P7WRSdE9xiLqZ6CFxbYr3BxJjM3UeXLoYgacWtTakyMNdX_yWA2arjJ3F_CHCBp8p3F/s400/DSC00883.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333815390305104834" border="0" /></a>And he has to really push hard with his hind legs to get the rest of him in.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbGxf0Qh3YSPFoegTu2QiRsW3EMqPJV2-3XOeS9HIp7tT3D9YFJ8Y673wbcTImo5E44itFKVXuIY69QKIZKEOMChLYU6PDCjTaaHoUSYoYJsivfRdzbnv7-jl0tuK9iKralYtgJBHi3fz1/s1600-h/DSC00884.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbGxf0Qh3YSPFoegTu2QiRsW3EMqPJV2-3XOeS9HIp7tT3D9YFJ8Y673wbcTImo5E44itFKVXuIY69QKIZKEOMChLYU6PDCjTaaHoUSYoYJsivfRdzbnv7-jl0tuK9iKralYtgJBHi3fz1/s400/DSC00884.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333815385411052610" border="0" /></a><br />But once he's there no one can bother him - not even May May who is too big to fit.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-57372887812473444212009-05-09T05:45:00.003-07:002009-05-09T19:01:00.236-07:00Sign language and toilet paper.When I first arrived in China Skyler told me (very casually, I thought) I should learn the finger positions for numbers and to always carry toilet paper.<br /><br />I learned my lesson about carrying t.p. in the worst way (and I thought Mexico was bad), and soon thereafter realized my mistake in not learning how to convey numbers. (No, I wanted 10 eggs, not 10 kilos of eggs.)<br /><br />This clip shows Sky demonstrating the finger positions for numbers.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwqq7Q6m5cjKww7jT5RSCbGSkbzrVDw2CSeuJFCD6DX-xXH-0Kd404JPGljNYH1dM9ZuJO1oUK9w2znZX3qrg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-8600718604900106922009-05-09T05:45:00.001-07:002009-05-09T18:40:58.477-07:00Tao Bao<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyMaLsDIZSKJt0mS1AHV3eRS34fzv-rBzvn9FNjb2o9mruLSm8ivVDsj_JhBsnw117jROLUgO6n00YNvdBlNg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Ok so Skyler and Yue Li get a majority of their things on Tao Bao, the Chinese equivalent of e-bay but a lot bigger. Sky explained that when China opened up and became more capitalistic the Internet was blossoming at the same time. Thus their shopping here is done by the younger generation in equal proportion between real hands on shopping and via the net.<br /><br />Anyway, Sky shops online for stuff he can't get here, like a few months ago he almost purchased a humongous chunk of cheese. They usually correspond with each shopkeeper about the product quite a bit before they purchase it, but in this case they were not online so he just had the info posted to go by. He was about to get it (apparently the price was incredibly low) when Yue Li pointed out that the expiration date was 6 months prior.<br /><br />This clip shows him looking for one of the things he misses here, ranch dressing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-77217308434305745852009-05-09T05:38:00.002-07:002009-05-15T18:14:30.673-07:00Random photos, random thoughts.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuhkhFlAugzIJpMdOnyRFguuBH8tFRAKvSQAonCGrKXcrqoQMG5ME1cVAtRIVjM0wYcchqEu0ydmfBoPfzKUlFQUoLIVyIUS3gA48QjhK_Z-bE0eL4Ih5zB6BDX2nmxpBRNndlCt-1U550/s1600-h/P4280009.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuhkhFlAugzIJpMdOnyRFguuBH8tFRAKvSQAonCGrKXcrqoQMG5ME1cVAtRIVjM0wYcchqEu0ydmfBoPfzKUlFQUoLIVyIUS3gA48QjhK_Z-bE0eL4Ih5zB6BDX2nmxpBRNndlCt-1U550/s400/P4280009.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333804400874937714" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1IRqzmcF50M4LGloUaQmvHMA_6j4E83U86vIBRbYNvI5g_LX_ZXQIJxkCJTI103Rbv6r0xFzM2305e0UjlAGsUBrGS4v4G9I5_zv_nVA2c_sZA_spd_UFx4goeHf0XcBQtwXARFZWH73d/s1600-h/P5060035.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1IRqzmcF50M4LGloUaQmvHMA_6j4E83U86vIBRbYNvI5g_LX_ZXQIJxkCJTI103Rbv6r0xFzM2305e0UjlAGsUBrGS4v4G9I5_zv_nVA2c_sZA_spd_UFx4goeHf0XcBQtwXARFZWH73d/s400/P5060035.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333808272931010946" border="0" /></a>Meet the bong bong guys, (named after their stick) originating from and possibly unique to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Chong</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Ching</span>. Because of the mountainous terrain, there is a notable lack of carts and bicycles. Instead, for transporting goods, these men and women abound in the city and will carry your items for less than a dollar, two if it's the better part of the day. It's a bit nerve-wracking at first to have them carrying your purchases around the market as one, I was always afraid they'd take off with them and two, they come right into the little stores and clothes <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">boutiques</span> with you and wait while you browse, even if it's for an hour or more. It turns out they are trustworthy and patient and after I got over feeling like some kind of royalty from a long ago exotic land I adjusted.<br /><br />Above <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Yue</span> Li nurses the baby while I shop - our bong bong guy is to the right, his arm on a game board we bought, the rest of our bags are behind that.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdkykbn0rh9RiS92zsfiWBCoxsrvkGyp3ZAo17E8TUKc-WIVFjy_4dMGDoWeIBKfYpj3sHxJ746grgmJL7JAaEYpkvoJZIqeom62Ff30miK1an0of_GphcEOEaKV9Hgd7rKqO_-QcGLGNF/s1600-h/P4280006.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdkykbn0rh9RiS92zsfiWBCoxsrvkGyp3ZAo17E8TUKc-WIVFjy_4dMGDoWeIBKfYpj3sHxJ746grgmJL7JAaEYpkvoJZIqeom62Ff30miK1an0of_GphcEOEaKV9Hgd7rKqO_-QcGLGNF/s400/P4280006.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333805874711421826" border="0" /></a>Here a pineapple vendor uses the bong bong stick to carry his wares.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGjgwJaTmJizKbvjeERfJxPQwVAPvu8VCFT9tsEatG-wQyFTDkOy0NNgUnIKlW6vf3Wp9_iDv41fzWyLfrzmrZqoBOHHDPa7SamTcXtNqUl_ssXFVC9onmAZhBc-aMjY1MDH5oyc7ue8Iw/s1600-h/P4160046.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGjgwJaTmJizKbvjeERfJxPQwVAPvu8VCFT9tsEatG-wQyFTDkOy0NNgUnIKlW6vf3Wp9_iDv41fzWyLfrzmrZqoBOHHDPa7SamTcXtNqUl_ssXFVC9onmAZhBc-aMjY1MDH5oyc7ue8Iw/s400/P4160046.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333805868562193602" border="0" /></a>We're at Metro, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Chong</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Chings</span> equivalent for Costco, a Belgium company, and Skyler discovers slip-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">ons</span>. We have a laugh for old time's sake.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDdxHTcmZHp13Gjabf2zBDl5MxBaL7DkjF2Xl_-Eu8wsY7KpOdqmjRyCxzIIm84Ayth8UcHovN8nVkjbiw07wa3PQiz0KRra-MOdhsmXr8I8ihXSe6IZdJ2HtF84-GwWumad5j6sSeq_qn/s1600-h/China+091.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDdxHTcmZHp13Gjabf2zBDl5MxBaL7DkjF2Xl_-Eu8wsY7KpOdqmjRyCxzIIm84Ayth8UcHovN8nVkjbiw07wa3PQiz0KRra-MOdhsmXr8I8ihXSe6IZdJ2HtF84-GwWumad5j6sSeq_qn/s400/China+091.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333805859582727282" border="0" /></a>Oh whoops! How did this adorable boy slip into the China blog? Well, as long as he's here, let me introduce our handsome grandson, Dylan. Dylan, did you find the pictures of the bugs Papa G took for you?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7VZ5q8Ifk_qhtawexSPAKzm3q1lOltQsKjMhqybGGC_oM0mdyV0pjdti9iTMGJlooLbV1fB-0zlLJvzo_mI2InzVYTbo5urJF8WEYAE2mQCg2qLK9CfjNPH83iw58msL7B0GcKt3FnKfG/s1600-h/P4280011.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7VZ5q8Ifk_qhtawexSPAKzm3q1lOltQsKjMhqybGGC_oM0mdyV0pjdti9iTMGJlooLbV1fB-0zlLJvzo_mI2InzVYTbo5urJF8WEYAE2mQCg2qLK9CfjNPH83iw58msL7B0GcKt3FnKfG/s400/P4280011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333804400496874498" border="0" /></a>Guy had me take this. It is for Carlos. I don't know why.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrFlo-140W-a8ukYjlJUQT2O4v80yDnWYHykDKAZNHih5FmTSOCnvuCXcH7a-g49yH4-FhrPsceSWVtSn136ngsieatppbd9C0SkDuGwjcrRW4AbrPHcZu4QduJQ_ALpQ7wthHbuKPzrfJ/s1600-h/P4280018.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrFlo-140W-a8ukYjlJUQT2O4v80yDnWYHykDKAZNHih5FmTSOCnvuCXcH7a-g49yH4-FhrPsceSWVtSn136ngsieatppbd9C0SkDuGwjcrRW4AbrPHcZu4QduJQ_ALpQ7wthHbuKPzrfJ/s400/P4280018.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333804395805226882" border="0" /></a>We see these trucks frequently - they're armored trucks that carry cash and the guards are the only people allowed to carry weapons except the military. What is interesting about these is that the Chinese pay cash for most things - including cars and houses. So when they buy a car, for example, they will hire one of these to transport the money to the car dealership.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwTbcRjyAFOa_MFa5HB-sNtKEA0SKGi-kBetigxMX_MMirfuSzLAjx-j-35Kqx3nmpi70YQvU5p5-4ke6gqc4ec4-cgcGtNnQhUOwxhH-d9MkhVtEFQM2rLG40c9epHQ6CdTr5xC-hEpBj/s1600-h/P4270002.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwTbcRjyAFOa_MFa5HB-sNtKEA0SKGi-kBetigxMX_MMirfuSzLAjx-j-35Kqx3nmpi70YQvU5p5-4ke6gqc4ec4-cgcGtNnQhUOwxhH-d9MkhVtEFQM2rLG40c9epHQ6CdTr5xC-hEpBj/s400/P4270002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333804388183390834" border="0" /></a>There's one guy that goes around at these restaurants pouring tea this way.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSNUosde8CsxCPoMyE7c4AY3iOfFHjshdcsVksTCQP6adSSuiq5kpns2AhKEh2DY3b41WTgBWk-n_I5Zgzp462g9dOrP3ezVNyuyp4Sqr_yp4X0I0Ei-GzcEtF7nR9hXzZyQ8OP5P53dej/s1600-h/P4160048.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSNUosde8CsxCPoMyE7c4AY3iOfFHjshdcsVksTCQP6adSSuiq5kpns2AhKEh2DY3b41WTgBWk-n_I5Zgzp462g9dOrP3ezVNyuyp4Sqr_yp4X0I0Ei-GzcEtF7nR9hXzZyQ8OP5P53dej/s400/P4160048.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333804384441480786" border="0" /></a>The money and Sky showing me the finger positions for numbers. The red bill is 100 quay, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">RMB</span>, or yuan, all meaning the same thing. The exchange is 7 to 1, so the 100 equals just under $14.00. That will buy three or four nice t-shirts at the market. The green bill is ten <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">RMB</span>, about $1.20 (doing this in my head) which will buy a bowl of noodles with meat and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">vegies</span> and a soda, the purple one is 5 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">RMB</span> which will buy you a taxi ride uptown.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-4960432351401961202009-05-08T03:17:00.000-07:002009-05-12T00:17:20.931-07:00Daily Living Concerns<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIh_NzZwJ25R4JbLhzneIt0W_RAcsRTgbVOdOEFh0Gc90HXCXNIAQskPhRVMZtoEvg47W2sZ7mGahNQx5tjLJYJBJn7yzm4v2PUwNtWNxBgRuSbJjEIjKGkMdan84M5w1PZ7ZYEuL2Y4Jb/s1600-h/P5070038.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIh_NzZwJ25R4JbLhzneIt0W_RAcsRTgbVOdOEFh0Gc90HXCXNIAQskPhRVMZtoEvg47W2sZ7mGahNQx5tjLJYJBJn7yzm4v2PUwNtWNxBgRuSbJjEIjKGkMdan84M5w1PZ7ZYEuL2Y4Jb/s400/P5070038.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333997495360203714" border="0" /></a>An update to my laundry dilemma. When Guy arrived he took it over. lol. That's it. Plus, after taking a closer look at how other people dried their laundry I lost (most of) my concerns about publicly displaying my underwear. Nobody cares.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOumDBSrib71LLq3mXPBKZaZXTH_mFeicSb36UD8PrYYKFyI8oxIftqUvIjilleOqLd0SZol54G4W9dVSdJlmAQL0HtExp6hdlUZw1pdBXg15lXdvUUn72FY8fbedHtNcjaIBilxjI_LLK/s1600-h/P5090028.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOumDBSrib71LLq3mXPBKZaZXTH_mFeicSb36UD8PrYYKFyI8oxIftqUvIjilleOqLd0SZol54G4W9dVSdJlmAQL0HtExp6hdlUZw1pdBXg15lXdvUUn72FY8fbedHtNcjaIBilxjI_LLK/s400/P5090028.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333997494797387298" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-64981342303887615192009-05-08T03:16:00.001-07:002009-05-09T05:37:05.477-07:00We visit Yue Li's school. Her old neighborhood.<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxgwijfUX3JqUa-znkw7q9MPdKbg677K2cSQp7ePrDTkRAcRi9NJFMo6ISRBfA-opEI22XD8Okeu_6124_uAA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Yue</span> Li takes us to the acrobat school she grew up in. The neighborhood is only a five minute taxi ride from where she and Sky live now. She started the school at the age of nine when she and 24 other girls were selected out of 500 competitors. There she lived full time until the age of 16, when she moved out but stayed with the acrobat company until the age of 23.<br /><br />The following videos are of the girls in the school, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Yue</span> Li showing us some of what she does in her shows. I <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">apologize</span> for the poor video-taping - and the sideways viewing, which I couldn't figure out how to correct. Not my deal, normally. Still <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">isn't</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">haha</span>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-76832234460749142442009-05-08T01:12:00.000-07:002009-05-09T05:36:57.227-07:00We visit Yue Li's school: The girls<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxqqob7U0CUAy9CJNMugsep1gjy2HSzJhvHg9u3vZx4mIfo1OjyzwrWclpxtXYLNiIxiypLcrXFpKoPAQzGGA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxesVGdLjbLGi4Mv0x77u-gXMKU36Ck2x3GbF8Qgm9iw-6RxXw4LwEsCUbb4_4E7gXbM7IsE4unz8Tn2WFQ-w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-43209755488191472592009-05-08T00:37:00.000-07:002009-05-09T05:36:48.364-07:00We visit Yue Li's acrobat school - upstairs, the boys.<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw_0YGygnbhFNx7wkzoMytCS1W_xXG9z8yqeCMEIWsXFnrukT4vpN_YoR2hnp0h-5jkLn1wUbO0v2TbS4Wg5Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzdmS42h3hUkgHewotBYdzu81cT5aPoDTeFI10LjXQCSh34VwzycbjxVstWEvEyltyEH9cpv033N5oS2CYcHA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-28113893939005345182009-05-08T00:18:00.000-07:002009-05-09T05:36:38.639-07:00We visit Yue Li's acrobat school. Pictures on the walls.<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxeT-gAjuDT8f25RHQyJ6nlTP3LvpZAJFkXjDiJ202jN9qRCx6ZmocF27N7pYejUZrqdPpruUHCUrjGtagJjQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyi8l4KZR5OCblZXHaB9NcT4K-GnZyuY3WvRS4xee30OgE37Sg6oOJ3xRTdDEuluN8vkqo6Ak_5r_gCkUYcDA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-25532103218354740672009-05-07T23:55:00.000-07:002009-05-09T05:36:28.750-07:00We visit Yue Li's acrobat school. Pictures in the hallways.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNOeMAMdgWcogCbj4BHRLYXC-acCPxIdXlXhxIS7vATIGRijXw9qcROUOQQf1W9WhHEKWKzAlrcARBqmTlaUkUfJFgdcaHYzGXOtEHHK-2YUPySbiBLVidHp70hHSWGNLOdC1zqFwCbN_K/s1600-h/P5060010.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNOeMAMdgWcogCbj4BHRLYXC-acCPxIdXlXhxIS7vATIGRijXw9qcROUOQQf1W9WhHEKWKzAlrcARBqmTlaUkUfJFgdcaHYzGXOtEHHK-2YUPySbiBLVidHp70hHSWGNLOdC1zqFwCbN_K/s400/P5060010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333348471329265954" border="0" /></a>It appears Yue Li is famous even at her school, she and her troop's photos dominate the walls. We are pointing to Yue Li as a youngster.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFrcTPXl_SEkRu7i_I4lXUhIqplzV65SZhb8-VumviZlMSvXCKeJHRE_uS1tzTtIzziW7ZJkqSVyGisbbQF35RXxmCL2E6y8GjP-FAQOLwYUu2IRwOEVUMVAYnlDvH-MEgQeBLZWskvVv5/s1600-h/P5060014.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFrcTPXl_SEkRu7i_I4lXUhIqplzV65SZhb8-VumviZlMSvXCKeJHRE_uS1tzTtIzziW7ZJkqSVyGisbbQF35RXxmCL2E6y8GjP-FAQOLwYUu2IRwOEVUMVAYnlDvH-MEgQeBLZWskvVv5/s400/P5060014.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333348463231860594" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-VZK3hrqWJtVtptPOBirhmp_6aDeIvbR0siommYMciJCQnvA3npArObh4ZfrTtAXpC9PEKpwBYw_fTMOQkEPEfx8kqfMDwtLakdWwjrSWAFqJOLdcdYyUxN-Zg3y3DsY1pCuu8jgQXhxI/s1600-h/P5060013.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-VZK3hrqWJtVtptPOBirhmp_6aDeIvbR0siommYMciJCQnvA3npArObh4ZfrTtAXpC9PEKpwBYw_fTMOQkEPEfx8kqfMDwtLakdWwjrSWAFqJOLdcdYyUxN-Zg3y3DsY1pCuu8jgQXhxI/s400/P5060013.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333348460229184050" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZC5xsQAeNK1kfCQjPnn0yjGtYplT2FyLtBRQTWn92slj7smeJw9t2suotXOBE-o3k8BNJkC1oDVdZp6CSwhjVF6vS51XViC1yj4Fa7Jp7_G1BFVcZYs2HFWLC_VvA5st5XhvaMQOvPRre/s1600-h/P5060016.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZC5xsQAeNK1kfCQjPnn0yjGtYplT2FyLtBRQTWn92slj7smeJw9t2suotXOBE-o3k8BNJkC1oDVdZp6CSwhjVF6vS51XViC1yj4Fa7Jp7_G1BFVcZYs2HFWLC_VvA5st5XhvaMQOvPRre/s400/P5060016.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333347589850269058" border="0" /></a>Here the kids have posted some of their homework. It is an essay about feelings, Yue Li tells us.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcYQcjwZ6GGmKyqVvVth08kQtW29TLjye1V2sqLUsRXrvFp8WrUtokOTcIGaQL67Rk01lPzPw0HImIpOq5DS-YfxnyKIDzWZjNlXx5okyhfzsbAyQP2xtzZvO8Ytg5JoI0qy8Ouvd7Mv3X/s1600-h/P5060015.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcYQcjwZ6GGmKyqVvVth08kQtW29TLjye1V2sqLUsRXrvFp8WrUtokOTcIGaQL67Rk01lPzPw0HImIpOq5DS-YfxnyKIDzWZjNlXx5okyhfzsbAyQP2xtzZvO8Ytg5JoI0qy8Ouvd7Mv3X/s400/P5060015.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333347586603091522" border="0" /></a>Check out these characters.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIlv0AdnynVwlBDehFWMtNkhCRu71UJQTG6ff9ldzQMYxLRcq0tAetVICi02_huwVWkPcAfucz_WCtrV8u7OwbaXtt5e8-PYYY9uWzYmhdFEt_eaSv7GXqy39DIKejIxc5FYyUOg9YynpQ/s1600-h/P5060017.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIlv0AdnynVwlBDehFWMtNkhCRu71UJQTG6ff9ldzQMYxLRcq0tAetVICi02_huwVWkPcAfucz_WCtrV8u7OwbaXtt5e8-PYYY9uWzYmhdFEt_eaSv7GXqy39DIKejIxc5FYyUOg9YynpQ/s400/P5060017.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333347583860798738" border="0" /></a>We're leaving the school.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35x-hCVtQPm7WQXZlvE1uyITAHlTiBTHG2RJ25dAp7SjlTAVMvJNwonQjJ-3Ws1aTdqNscPSxx_sOPvo8Y5o9PUpZkXsrbfh-m3skIBHVzc3cKb2sVjarN2zCpDUU6QJQO_K7hK5aWtAP/s1600-h/P5060022.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35x-hCVtQPm7WQXZlvE1uyITAHlTiBTHG2RJ25dAp7SjlTAVMvJNwonQjJ-3Ws1aTdqNscPSxx_sOPvo8Y5o9PUpZkXsrbfh-m3skIBHVzc3cKb2sVjarN2zCpDUU6QJQO_K7hK5aWtAP/s400/P5060022.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333347579283816082" border="0" /></a>It takes us twenty minutes to get one block. Shopkeepers and neighbors come running out to see Yue Li and the baby. Most of them know her from a young girl and tell stories of her buying treats and food from their shops. Here, this shopkeeper advises Yue li to rub ginger on baby Star's eyebrows to help them grow full and shapely.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfYhSfoTZL1y8tPPJkBptMZL2vCdCeHyTb8uZ1Yj_NkZQNLYyYTfMSVNTAV1FPH2EiyQ7k7Rs36VO2D_k66GQvFQN9n7d4CXXw_mUZj8eSojMWmh1XVR208KWNfTzbOaakKC_bQH9lseB/s1600-h/P5060032.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfYhSfoTZL1y8tPPJkBptMZL2vCdCeHyTb8uZ1Yj_NkZQNLYyYTfMSVNTAV1FPH2EiyQ7k7Rs36VO2D_k66GQvFQN9n7d4CXXw_mUZj8eSojMWmh1XVR208KWNfTzbOaakKC_bQH9lseB/s400/P5060032.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333347572357991154" border="0" /></a>We eat at a resturant Yue Li ate at growing up and often returned to with Skyler before the baby was born. The owner is teary-eyed when she sees them and the baby, it's obvious she feels very maternal toward "her little family."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-19668633831993688232009-05-07T22:08:00.000-07:002009-05-07T23:49:44.327-07:00Somebody's got my number...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7zK7fpwKCE22bMCyE5Kmkrz_p6PYOcA-1HjxGrruTlgwJZWnGe56Tox9wbtNyQg356tEds2ip9a01hKxDOVmVOjfuo9jZsFBtp5rvAz7fEaQLKaTL4XEK00oCFZKWkOIAiWAWUUYd1UCz/s1600-h/garden.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7zK7fpwKCE22bMCyE5Kmkrz_p6PYOcA-1HjxGrruTlgwJZWnGe56Tox9wbtNyQg356tEds2ip9a01hKxDOVmVOjfuo9jZsFBtp5rvAz7fEaQLKaTL4XEK00oCFZKWkOIAiWAWUUYd1UCz/s400/garden.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333317393110055074" border="0" /></a>So I'm packing for our flight in two days and feeling a little mournful. Then I open my email and Olivia has sent me these two photos. One is of her garden, the other of Leeannette and Haven. She says "I wanted to send you one of the flowers because I don't know if they will still be so pretty when you get here." The other photo simply says, "We love u nana."<br /><br />The bench on the right is where I sit to drink my coffee in the morning on my day off.<br /><br />The one of the girls? Heart-stopping. Thank you Olivia.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3NRdSd0cJ4gBk85Y6GK3O4PO3bfAZtFpoZy_H2dXx4Zkx1VfEJFLqIPbsWDT-na79isu-n-IKz_pW6kP4jNL3Rw43sAEgQ0owVIedJhc1__nw_FcvHmTd-xYmUjiIG-tE0PR60r-gwpZJ/s1600-h/lea+and+haven.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3NRdSd0cJ4gBk85Y6GK3O4PO3bfAZtFpoZy_H2dXx4Zkx1VfEJFLqIPbsWDT-na79isu-n-IKz_pW6kP4jNL3Rw43sAEgQ0owVIedJhc1__nw_FcvHmTd-xYmUjiIG-tE0PR60r-gwpZJ/s400/lea+and+haven.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333316570443443650" border="0" /></a><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Skyler/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-41085635664118644852009-05-07T21:54:00.001-07:002009-05-07T23:54:26.619-07:00Pets of Chong Ching<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNFXfSNBrEdn5qHt1ooiPjBnoO51nFvuBZzQTMmKrMClSzLHcflA58xkUpTMZY5JQ9VHllSlWwb3-LDFYw7y9LfvS6EO9TuT0KXM6uTBcTvBtWQF7HTHuCHJwju0PB2jgQAoXIdOW6laQR/s1600-h/DSC00772.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNFXfSNBrEdn5qHt1ooiPjBnoO51nFvuBZzQTMmKrMClSzLHcflA58xkUpTMZY5JQ9VHllSlWwb3-LDFYw7y9LfvS6EO9TuT0KXM6uTBcTvBtWQF7HTHuCHJwju0PB2jgQAoXIdOW6laQR/s400/DSC00772.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333315356713797730" border="0" /></a>Pets like these are relatively new. Yue Li remembers seeing her first dog as a pet in Chong Ching when she was 15. I didn't get as many photos as I wanted - I saw plenty dressed up, more with shoes, and several with dyed hair. <img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Skyler/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixY99nw5fEMdi1_Y-gSvdMfeyJRg9e_VkqIFFex84xEalsJJiHhu_j7fdvrRJVBlOTSJ7REvNHDfkYPzQCnxd87EpAvZPh0yQGZmKjnJJbzyOjGuXrAIvCfLFo4dXiu-9T1VzN6oG7YX8y/s1600-h/DSC00872.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixY99nw5fEMdi1_Y-gSvdMfeyJRg9e_VkqIFFex84xEalsJJiHhu_j7fdvrRJVBlOTSJ7REvNHDfkYPzQCnxd87EpAvZPh0yQGZmKjnJJbzyOjGuXrAIvCfLFo4dXiu-9T1VzN6oG7YX8y/s400/DSC00872.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333315351727951906" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTp226WPnKR4wpPCSOhtsixrCwTm57mL_zFYNJ7YxrJC4bJH41ITXhd9xQoa57eNP6E1EdzfM4W32aw_EoZ2FpLEzj6tLiOWMWZa9DHzDo_WIbwAJTIf1JiO46qL9n0AFyCHuZ6MxQ4z5b/s1600-h/P4290042.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG3ppL_GohXWkJUm6BZ436kXJBrvct-22ePT1WgF4hsj1_T2tf-byPe1aEM8HWfW4CjloTGU80EUC-Rhc2UAMd5hGWFxh6cQz3Ffqhv06VJiJZrwSvJzs151Oi5BIzCtsTXDCTVE4_tiHJ/s400/DSC00774.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333313953664708914" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzUegqRjsfOae8Qq3PCKXNcxr26U-k58JazKdZIEzNL-PvmmCA1uvyOcXMTpS73usU2EIlK2Jlsd3nqMUhomg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-7004203361769540132009-05-07T09:14:00.002-07:002009-05-07T09:15:13.918-07:00Hooked on majong and tea houses; Yellow Dragon road.<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxWJVHI4k1qEVAm8T2GFnNBjzT-iZXbD7IJ6a1olg9uZ_JC58Ci1zCNXwmWpYWV5IeHkfVXQxcFmKKAoIOv2Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>We're off to find a tea house to play majong, now that we've got the hang of it. We hire a taxi to take us out of the city and onto South Mountain, a rural community perched on one of the mountains that surround Chong Ching. Here we're winding up Yellow Dragon Road. In case you can't hear what we're saying, we're discussing the name of the road and what animals we are according to the Chinese calendar.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-38313666876135705822009-05-07T09:14:00.001-07:002009-05-07T09:14:27.443-07:00Hooked on majong and tea houses; the gravel road to nowhere.<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzpH4mXpABiQOCAkiEZs0ezKR_O6d0QlgLTVbYo9NG3xWn8kEGnEaAPhasd_L1QyvAtpj028SzP5hBx3c8IfQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>So the kids tell us there are all sorts of tea houses up here on this mountain where we can also play majong. We drive and drive, while they try to remember where they'd come before, both of them getting quieter and quieter as we go along making comments like, "I don't really remember this part." Finally, they tell the taxi driver to let us out. We don't see any structure at all, just a truck loaded with plants and four guys carrying a pallet of plants down into what looks like a nursery. They're singing in rhythm to their steps and it's beatifual and surreal at the same time. The kids, meanwhile, are "discussing" which way to proceed, favoring a long gravel road that appears to go nowwhere. They ask one of the nursery workers (Guy and I look, it is, indeed a nursery) if there is a tea house down the gravel road. He laughs and says yes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-92192685850421046572009-05-07T09:13:00.001-07:002009-05-07T09:13:39.939-07:00Hooked on majong and tea houses; the nursery.<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwljSrbjPiK-6dfpZ0bVY-_uTB29x_WumOsbs9CshWD1F3bFkqXZBQ24aIRSchEwJ_FPebEb8Vfsf8sFZBi8Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>While the kids decide what to do, Guy and I go back up to the top of the hill to video the singing nursery men but they're done with their deliveries so we decide to take a look around. Check this place out, Corks and Elaine!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-57594042967596115292009-05-07T09:11:00.001-07:002009-05-07T09:12:03.775-07:00Hooked on majong and tea houses; Some good-ass tea.<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz_ziL8hutfs8f23qj_mqKBNiaLTbCj3s0I5fu4Icx5mYwmDoftceQrx43xMwc3dCokmgswxbN3bI3Zyey2zw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Pretty self-explanatory.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-53377023861973020102009-05-07T09:09:00.000-07:002009-05-15T18:24:35.846-07:00Hooked on majong and tea houses; Sorry for the rules, Guy.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1M5KS7njkgGZhgwu1FHOLd461lxPj97JdfbVvsfmi5El4FIuVU63ncSVOyB438HcfA5CGpKkdjQkX_rkaKNTZusTYL-mVvHQsYCXjdhVUUmwXNM4fn1zckVHr2feoc6AvO_D0SuNtNafy/s1600-h/P5040095.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1M5KS7njkgGZhgwu1FHOLd461lxPj97JdfbVvsfmi5El4FIuVU63ncSVOyB438HcfA5CGpKkdjQkX_rkaKNTZusTYL-mVvHQsYCXjdhVUUmwXNM4fn1zckVHr2feoc6AvO_D0SuNtNafy/s400/P5040095.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332322131547701186" border="0" /></a>We finally stop at what appears to be a private residence - and is, in fact a private residence. And a tea house. And a small hotel. Actually, more like a bed and breakfast. What Guy and I did not realize was that many of the homes here double as just that. The front of the home was unimposing, but here in the back it's lovely.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzSd7NxHKfAoyJBjrTqeaF8L9xzWpTrh8_oATF0KKAirGZAtIaBdF2a0iA1bSbsr0ns_HGRbTmRar6Qit-gj82DQc5y5wqoXxqBzwPrhNjQWg7l1CnPkAyoqxCJuI2rtK6IySECYUG7ByD/s1600-h/P5040094.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzSd7NxHKfAoyJBjrTqeaF8L9xzWpTrh8_oATF0KKAirGZAtIaBdF2a0iA1bSbsr0ns_HGRbTmRar6Qit-gj82DQc5y5wqoXxqBzwPrhNjQWg7l1CnPkAyoqxCJuI2rtK6IySECYUG7ByD/s400/P5040094.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332322131093689842" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4IOG8LE6h6TvqEIjK3T4TnujMwFIGAlezzFCQ4m1ZYci3Hr_mZ5Y5HtP-loQVuBpa-p5CtUyi50Yiz5fr4JXz8voe7JIAgFK0ujfboX939JvrdWsc2kYxfaouKsIhXkzq7kg0eCME-FWe/s1600-h/P5040088.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4IOG8LE6h6TvqEIjK3T4TnujMwFIGAlezzFCQ4m1ZYci3Hr_mZ5Y5HtP-loQVuBpa-p5CtUyi50Yiz5fr4JXz8voe7JIAgFK0ujfboX939JvrdWsc2kYxfaouKsIhXkzq7kg0eCME-FWe/s400/P5040088.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332322126389907794" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSxUessZX0eg1ImBGx2u4Mi-KdEbmL26ZYRh5d7ggd_ZQfFkIhKFrDku0e3xrnXriJaO4dOYOgUCZNDgKo-lWkMWy2haHbZY2uMkrL0AdsmPgH900do7ge5_0LqZrR0GiuMPN2Q_dRXFIO/s1600-h/P5040091.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSxUessZX0eg1ImBGx2u4Mi-KdEbmL26ZYRh5d7ggd_ZQfFkIhKFrDku0e3xrnXriJaO4dOYOgUCZNDgKo-lWkMWy2haHbZY2uMkrL0AdsmPgH900do7ge5_0LqZrR0GiuMPN2Q_dRXFIO/s400/P5040091.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332322118940974786" border="0" /></a>Yue Li picks out this shady spot for our afternoon's entertainment. The owners bring table and chairs, majong game and incense to keep the mosquitoes away. Skyler wins three games in a row, and Guy starts to get suspicious that he and Yue Li are making up new rules to confuse him. (And cause him to lose.) He flips his pieces down, certain that he's won. But no, Yue Li tells him, he needs five in a row, not three, or, he could go with two threes-of-a-kind, but either way, he hasn't won. "You never explained that," he protests. Yue Li looks very sympathetic and sad, and says, "Sorry about the rules, Guy. Sorry." It becomes our by-line for the rest of the day whenever he gets frustrated. Sorry about the rules, Guy, really...<br /><br />After Skyler wins the fourth game Yue Li thoughtfully considers this. She tells him he will have to move if he wins again. "What do you mean, move?" he asks. "Well, probably it's the chair that is lucky," she tells him. We laugh, but she doesn't. She's serious. We switch, I get his chair, I win the next game. Haha. Have to love my daughter-in-law.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5TfiZXu7zejaB-ANoV86Tqc9xjSvAezKC2NwtFwLLMbQKgICVFzcR6hjVtqRK-CYnuyi899wnndj-x7JQg_VQKywAZz3eNDCmprX-1CAN-ZQlsq00NXsiIKciqGZyYUwzKu2i6fCsQgGB/s1600-h/P5040096.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5TfiZXu7zejaB-ANoV86Tqc9xjSvAezKC2NwtFwLLMbQKgICVFzcR6hjVtqRK-CYnuyi899wnndj-x7JQg_VQKywAZz3eNDCmprX-1CAN-ZQlsq00NXsiIKciqGZyYUwzKu2i6fCsQgGB/s400/P5040096.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332322116490620594" border="0" /></a>We get hungry, so the kids ask the owner if he will start cooking our meal. I sense they feel it might take awhile. Good planning, I think to myself. Something I would have done. After all, the hosts didn't know we'd show up for dinner, probably they will have some lengthy preparation ahead of them.<br /><br />Lengthier than I guessed. Here Skyler watches the owner catch our dinner.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9c39qOpXOo4p0idy76hFmIINiH2CdNMfUZ0InG7W7IXaJwNbWabIO1yUQ6mmbRqBQMoTaf7mPjN5WK6tIiJL5qjs0ZhPem6HDl_MRQ-yWOCC_hurjqzGnYUA5Hmn7p2_2DRsMF2v5nVYP/s1600-h/P5040099.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9c39qOpXOo4p0idy76hFmIINiH2CdNMfUZ0InG7W7IXaJwNbWabIO1yUQ6mmbRqBQMoTaf7mPjN5WK6tIiJL5qjs0ZhPem6HDl_MRQ-yWOCC_hurjqzGnYUA5Hmn7p2_2DRsMF2v5nVYP/s400/P5040099.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332319421671135938" border="0" /></a>And, well, yeah.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Lzx6Sr82B8XDJIe7FZmWKs4UDp4fdXl1o86KgL1cYbkfYvYdfiskHX2p7QRvoc_HVMJouAhcbvIUbrve_RSOuzSLl0UztriviXt4WfgZBzheBjS9Rj3lAMOU_zp15YiZp_ucOE34FgBZ/s1600-h/P5040100.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Lzx6Sr82B8XDJIe7FZmWKs4UDp4fdXl1o86KgL1cYbkfYvYdfiskHX2p7QRvoc_HVMJouAhcbvIUbrve_RSOuzSLl0UztriviXt4WfgZBzheBjS9Rj3lAMOU_zp15YiZp_ucOE34FgBZ/s400/P5040100.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332319419012446706" border="0" /></a>Nothing goes to waste. The blood is used to make one of our dishes, blood soup.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw2kvNd3p-__m-FswXgfh6iJeVinh62CF_vkuC6NJd_3TfP5pqa4cdUtu7QzYOUFkOIRt-BcnDjVKg42hXy8GMtxzsgf52Mj9xwcPIheyR-yn5gLYyq2cXQtsHpj-S35wpjrCxomXHEeju/s1600-h/P5040102.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw2kvNd3p-__m-FswXgfh6iJeVinh62CF_vkuC6NJd_3TfP5pqa4cdUtu7QzYOUFkOIRt-BcnDjVKg42hXy8GMtxzsgf52Mj9xwcPIheyR-yn5gLYyq2cXQtsHpj-S35wpjrCxomXHEeju/s400/P5040102.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332319414986996194" border="0" /></a>Plucking the poor little dear. Sigh.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLbTFti98Nj0jVMG855kISdYIPl_naQmOERpQgkYKt-Bgs-5GXgh5-Hti6o1vij8GIjFO3wuiQ1fwzcyga4_4SBhiGJeL1X922E798nrf6TOlzP-1Lg_nwNddLHpbnW_QW4HiQqOLeRGTo/s1600-h/P5040104.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLbTFti98Nj0jVMG855kISdYIPl_naQmOERpQgkYKt-Bgs-5GXgh5-Hti6o1vij8GIjFO3wuiQ1fwzcyga4_4SBhiGJeL1X922E798nrf6TOlzP-1Lg_nwNddLHpbnW_QW4HiQqOLeRGTo/s400/P5040104.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332319411527991762" border="0" /></a>In the middle is the entire chicken. We were a little hesitant, until Sky explained it was part of the "balance" of the food, like presenting an entire fish, the way Guy likes his cooked. You don't necessarily eat every single part, although people certainly do. Along with this we had a sweet and sour cabbage dish, very good, dark greens, a little spicy, stringed potatoes in a salty broth, rice, and the blood soup.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4-keuFm6IFKSjj8gYHXHPxY8voO6beXKQOk85mT6AkQ1-JUwMIx9NOqgMPl2prFKlVF6XQ4y8g78xBdcKVlQd2QEDJY_bOEbAF8u1a5B0j9Ziiqh_mmEJifoNlLqa8emGRNrUxZxqrLnU/s1600-h/P5040106.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4-keuFm6IFKSjj8gYHXHPxY8voO6beXKQOk85mT6AkQ1-JUwMIx9NOqgMPl2prFKlVF6XQ4y8g78xBdcKVlQd2QEDJY_bOEbAF8u1a5B0j9Ziiqh_mmEJifoNlLqa8emGRNrUxZxqrLnU/s400/P5040106.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332319406671162338" border="0" /></a>Here Guy tries the chicken foot, which he says was tasty.<br /><br />A really excellent day, the owner called a loaf truck taxi for us, which I think might have been his neighbor, and we arrive back in Chong Ching around ten.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-6795569814413205672009-05-07T04:50:00.001-07:002009-05-07T04:51:05.306-07:00Yue Li's dad holds a dinner for us.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2rsF1mAs2OwTw6Tu0cIEXJpatdOh_R9SsB7gkTUt2IS3UzsfhqNQD1NVPVEkHbOo_jDIf-R_d-_4Jp2ECVaASMLdZh899Ac0ZYCYqwzWif4mvXasXXtp91U9ydeshJ7WI-ewYfnJmbSxG/s1600-h/P4290020.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2rsF1mAs2OwTw6Tu0cIEXJpatdOh_R9SsB7gkTUt2IS3UzsfhqNQD1NVPVEkHbOo_jDIf-R_d-_4Jp2ECVaASMLdZh899Ac0ZYCYqwzWif4mvXasXXtp91U9ydeshJ7WI-ewYfnJmbSxG/s400/P4290020.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331469689803448530" border="0" /></a>Yue Li's dad, arranges a family dinner at a famous Peking Duck restaurant. Above, her dad and step-mother, both very gracious and welcoming, pose with us.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0cCODY4K82YRkE_fwvQ-QsdijfkaRTZZ-I5zMnvSsTIRhnjlOpe0xhTj4KOxKYeN8CxdEvt9Eb8O07aZEkY0XaB4jrejm58oP5RnkvtZ2QwZlRksCflFhNG67ZcqGuAzxMkuiy2DE2ECP/s1600-h/P4290030.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0cCODY4K82YRkE_fwvQ-QsdijfkaRTZZ-I5zMnvSsTIRhnjlOpe0xhTj4KOxKYeN8CxdEvt9Eb8O07aZEkY0XaB4jrejm58oP5RnkvtZ2QwZlRksCflFhNG67ZcqGuAzxMkuiy2DE2ECP/s400/P4290030.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331464032479596706" border="0" /></a>Yue Li's aunt and uncle.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ewlaaxYlMYdJQWkPWlH_XkazE2DN3OIDhITGmhM4Mxr2lQz5MkPOZaS700oLvK4BNFotT4jaUV3fXusXP8zwQADzczlm8OdxBzItHfMLuH6NUIVAZm-XB0qCBVrafXla2XnqeEdYI-rW/s1600-h/P4290040.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ewlaaxYlMYdJQWkPWlH_XkazE2DN3OIDhITGmhM4Mxr2lQz5MkPOZaS700oLvK4BNFotT4jaUV3fXusXP8zwQADzczlm8OdxBzItHfMLuH6NUIVAZm-XB0qCBVrafXla2XnqeEdYI-rW/s400/P4290040.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331464030165102850" border="0" /></a>Two tables full of these very good dishes - we spin the lazy susan around and pick food out at whim - Yue Li's uncle, a chef, chooses our dishes with care, I think. Only one is unpalatable to our western tastes - duck feet. When Guy unknowningly selects a pair, Skyler tells Guy, discreetly, that he probably won't care for those and to transfer them onto his plate. Shortly thereafter, Sky transfers them to Yue Li's plate.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJmNfSfnysTloAhSsSxlxzj5BPFeqQ8jkfw07B9XMPGJg3_SFrDBsPG3L9RKDxrE5gpjfeB3A4vvUFDNHAB9TQ6y3NI3KKHamom3qygcnTnmL3DReH-DoHyeurQ4VCRpjK5y_py1o0DDrv/s1600-h/P4290025.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJmNfSfnysTloAhSsSxlxzj5BPFeqQ8jkfw07B9XMPGJg3_SFrDBsPG3L9RKDxrE5gpjfeB3A4vvUFDNHAB9TQ6y3NI3KKHamom3qygcnTnmL3DReH-DoHyeurQ4VCRpjK5y_py1o0DDrv/s400/P4290025.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331464030611386274" border="0" /></a>Yue Li's cousin and her husband and daughter.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzSAD47Bq8Pw7jKyoyu68Vc7gdO4AQEif_p2G5wf4boJdpPcv65dQdT3oJlEJzh5zxFXfZo8HdSuUOgpTBl5pVWNfnK0Yk0LoEc39-dyDicyMS8zpplmkGDdLwsTVsnctubqOaT8T48zh/s1600-h/P4290029.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzSAD47Bq8Pw7jKyoyu68Vc7gdO4AQEif_p2G5wf4boJdpPcv65dQdT3oJlEJzh5zxFXfZo8HdSuUOgpTBl5pVWNfnK0Yk0LoEc39-dyDicyMS8zpplmkGDdLwsTVsnctubqOaT8T48zh/s400/P4290029.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331462114050167714" border="0" /></a>Yue Li's cousin and his wife and son.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4ezCWVWhoNDT0UysD_1gy-GmfD0qoW0yGqQG41shn7SO2grzaUMiMOZ-73UslgIFXzMt6HzD8SRK1E2CpMG3hOepyVYchBzE5vuOhdFvUpbeVxoZ1rYTAZDUE2nJsKmkNzjXaFlfAeUY/s1600-h/P4290038.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4ezCWVWhoNDT0UysD_1gy-GmfD0qoW0yGqQG41shn7SO2grzaUMiMOZ-73UslgIFXzMt6HzD8SRK1E2CpMG3hOepyVYchBzE5vuOhdFvUpbeVxoZ1rYTAZDUE2nJsKmkNzjXaFlfAeUY/s400/P4290038.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331462110148318962" border="0" /></a>The Peking Duck is carved.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTdNm-6xGqoVxZ-iU7xK11__CZi9UTNuVPoEoo4wJk4JCfRtbmIuBRYqpSu7tYylaQXE0wJI7aJUAp77oH7PIpFUucmI48Ag92rEMJlEK7rjLoWXrBt9XmSKWtx92ZpcNAie8VlRBIgn7/s1600-h/P4290033.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTdNm-6xGqoVxZ-iU7xK11__CZi9UTNuVPoEoo4wJk4JCfRtbmIuBRYqpSu7tYylaQXE0wJI7aJUAp77oH7PIpFUucmI48Ag92rEMJlEK7rjLoWXrBt9XmSKWtx92ZpcNAie8VlRBIgn7/s400/P4290033.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331462105340307874" border="0" /></a>There is a toasting tradition here very different from ours. People or small groups are toasted individually - the night is filled with guests walking over to each other and toasting them - several people came to Guy and I and said many nice things to us - Guy then picked up the idea and went around the room toasting others, as was Sky. It's a good way to express admiration or gratitude or fondness toward people - I thought it very touching.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Jzwj68UugQDa3D1YpgyJG9gt81BGnYocvbwrD9QB6T4NERGqnrP2Ux2VNxAYU9lFs1jcMzXKExFayyphnNsL9WRv0sHS2rRMM1LjmT7EN-r-qiB01iOthwK43YmdOPoVwh6q77cadxqt/s1600-h/DSC00803.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Jzwj68UugQDa3D1YpgyJG9gt81BGnYocvbwrD9QB6T4NERGqnrP2Ux2VNxAYU9lFs1jcMzXKExFayyphnNsL9WRv0sHS2rRMM1LjmT7EN-r-qiB01iOthwK43YmdOPoVwh6q77cadxqt/s400/DSC00803.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331462098783452914" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-90000597223153073562009-05-06T02:36:00.000-07:002009-05-15T18:28:13.802-07:00Sky's day off: We go for a boat ride.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibGicSO2muHfJgxqBuirfhTXT63mjO-tt7reMXdNcuc4H0HmW5YmRS-CTFd7agAPFYJgthCe2iy4xpKWKZKpWcbQfBeApUnAUK12h4DQ8EIJ1gpyGIYi8KyuvlKpJGL7pJplvYF1gYl35z/s1600-h/P5060008.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibGicSO2muHfJgxqBuirfhTXT63mjO-tt7reMXdNcuc4H0HmW5YmRS-CTFd7agAPFYJgthCe2iy4xpKWKZKpWcbQfBeApUnAUK12h4DQ8EIJ1gpyGIYi8KyuvlKpJGL7pJplvYF1gYl35z/s400/P5060008.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332682683576505330" border="0" /></a>First of all let me say this. The above piece of paper is all I got concerning the boat ride, and, as you can see, it's all in Chinese. So, what I know is what I see and what Sky tells me. Who has proven to be very well informed, so that's something anyway.<br /><br />The left fork is the Yangtze River, the right fork the Jia Ling (pronounced Geya Leeng). I have penciled in North, South, east, west as per Sky's direction. The black dot is where we started. We proceeded up the Jia Ling river first. Sky and Yue Li's apartment is located at the end of the first bridge on the Jia Ling, north or right side. We turned around not too far after that bridge, went back to the Yangtze and headed east. The current there was very strong and we didn't get too far before we turned back and headed to port. The return was swift.<br /><br />The downtown and where Sky works is located in the fork of the two rivers.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxcCvMaXUw9jYTCRpm7My7AQkxdvH_JdjssbcUX3EsNkFz5ZAsi8RWECljlPdnMjzog_uVeb2zAGkk6x5Htr5jhzoou8CBuNgkdWQ4HPxDt0fru40YP_Tc57R0rvfnPCsDU-WJQaVnMfY0/s1600-h/P5030007.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxcCvMaXUw9jYTCRpm7My7AQkxdvH_JdjssbcUX3EsNkFz5ZAsi8RWECljlPdnMjzog_uVeb2zAGkk6x5Htr5jhzoou8CBuNgkdWQ4HPxDt0fru40YP_Tc57R0rvfnPCsDU-WJQaVnMfY0/s400/P5030007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332682679142603202" border="0" /></a>As we were casting off, headed east. Note the stairs on shore. There's another set of these beyond the structures at the top of them. When we were descending, and descending, to get on the boat Guy kept up a muttered litany about the stairs. "There's a lot of stairs, there's a s---- load of stairs, there's a lot of ------ stairs," etc. Yue Li and Sky were ahead of us and weren't listening, I'm sure, as when we arrived at the bottom of them Yue Li looked back up and said cheerfully, "There's a little bit of stairs, I think."<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDL4qVPSRQsAMblxZgWvzWZ8OdNM_q0EJYWz4zkDntjpD1m8ivEcR1t45wYDY8U3arL4wJspc5U1x_aBM87G0TqYZYlvqEbvzwEpQVamm5AxZWlH6Q62gIU1FUYgULuFsSizFi3KNq5mDt/s1600-h/P5030008.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDL4qVPSRQsAMblxZgWvzWZ8OdNM_q0EJYWz4zkDntjpD1m8ivEcR1t45wYDY8U3arL4wJspc5U1x_aBM87G0TqYZYlvqEbvzwEpQVamm5AxZWlH6Q62gIU1FUYgULuFsSizFi3KNq5mDt/s400/P5030008.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332682673025702306" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPvvrT75vjrJswXmjXrPm2WKYr6kvys36Tn2ZdA6XfwqUWBs_eUw5SetQQwLm7dE2LcZ8XF-3cKB0rpAcvvVctTXduDFGpZ7JIhqVFMQsTR98KjGhfS1IbGpkusIIwHFMq_6Rf6eBnvNhM/s1600-h/P5030009.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPvvrT75vjrJswXmjXrPm2WKYr6kvys36Tn2ZdA6XfwqUWBs_eUw5SetQQwLm7dE2LcZ8XF-3cKB0rpAcvvVctTXduDFGpZ7JIhqVFMQsTR98KjGhfS1IbGpkusIIwHFMq_6Rf6eBnvNhM/s400/P5030009.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332677872758587314" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuYW0wVNQuW_bj0_RhdhExmJe3bEwLd8YTRAgmTDKN-L_bauTrRwcYzPrsD54r67_M4UGyTS6YKBX2YDrHlabskFGoeoVftuVC3JusZppyb_ct1iuvKDdzc2-z0HmTiBOzSsJ_oRHB1lp/s1600-h/P5030010.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuYW0wVNQuW_bj0_RhdhExmJe3bEwLd8YTRAgmTDKN-L_bauTrRwcYzPrsD54r67_M4UGyTS6YKBX2YDrHlabskFGoeoVftuVC3JusZppyb_ct1iuvKDdzc2-z0HmTiBOzSsJ_oRHB1lp/s400/P5030010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332677867202448194" border="0" /></a>The Cable Car. This is the south side of the Jia Ling, the buildings are part of the downtown.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJhdUVFLLyWLHGOheHtROEpt1nj7SiAEgIp31ellJDcvjaCuLnxKUPTAnBhBC9oP0y-VGXKx_I2Qdn2mK4kC5cursOQXN44WtY6CrAMM0GVMVFQkxsTz3vR5JW_LjxFLm8TnbD38iA2-W0/s1600-h/P5030011.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJhdUVFLLyWLHGOheHtROEpt1nj7SiAEgIp31ellJDcvjaCuLnxKUPTAnBhBC9oP0y-VGXKx_I2Qdn2mK4kC5cursOQXN44WtY6CrAMM0GVMVFQkxsTz3vR5JW_LjxFLm8TnbD38iA2-W0/s400/P5030011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332677866242506370" border="0" /></a>This is the north side of the river. In the background is the new symphony hall to the right and the new natural history museum on the left. Both are nearly completed.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1NOsLjKp-c0ak0a_txiSb8N2N0fi8eovHUaSDnxWMVPgJdDsEhuKs4PVob3XgDM0fWG6sBYMEcS-fl1irXDiEcysxqlBWBnlXAkgFgE6irk-FUN8LC6BZt4HK42Q9Y9PlOIwtFsRShCOb/s1600-h/P5030012.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1NOsLjKp-c0ak0a_txiSb8N2N0fi8eovHUaSDnxWMVPgJdDsEhuKs4PVob3XgDM0fWG6sBYMEcS-fl1irXDiEcysxqlBWBnlXAkgFgE6irk-FUN8LC6BZt4HK42Q9Y9PlOIwtFsRShCOb/s400/P5030012.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332677866092316706" border="0" /></a>I'm not a boat person so I took most of these with Guy's instruction. You will have to figure out what is interesting about them.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizWye25mJlORWF4WywpZXT8Qy9drLV5ca7KNyFK8-na9hPV377XFpHZVio8gMS4-Ob0mQnAWYzwXJDAay-R62EViB0ZNueQg5-MiT7_6WwwlJEzYw-fAs_D52VB1NW166E561lv5QuNG9R/s1600-h/P5030013.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizWye25mJlORWF4WywpZXT8Qy9drLV5ca7KNyFK8-na9hPV377XFpHZVio8gMS4-Ob0mQnAWYzwXJDAay-R62EViB0ZNueQg5-MiT7_6WwwlJEzYw-fAs_D52VB1NW166E561lv5QuNG9R/s400/P5030013.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332677859008466850" border="0" /></a>Same here.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzvJ9etfjz1UY1tPubDhtIvajZ9bOoy3Y95mqE_ZvW3tBgowZPF6urd4ABBOmYpAxxoQcpdt9phO5_iMm-EVXSCS9ADGbhwCS4yRJ_Y1uGsyL2OnlJYDTXF7T15O8R6spTRJoWZx16yMYc/s1600-h/P5030014.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzvJ9etfjz1UY1tPubDhtIvajZ9bOoy3Y95mqE_ZvW3tBgowZPF6urd4ABBOmYpAxxoQcpdt9phO5_iMm-EVXSCS9ADGbhwCS4yRJ_Y1uGsyL2OnlJYDTXF7T15O8R6spTRJoWZx16yMYc/s400/P5030014.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332676441024683650" border="0" /></a>Above is the structure I referred to in an earlier blog as "The Cave." Apparently it is called "The Red Cave." Warning. If you haven't already figured it out, none of my facts are referenced, all is hastily and poorly edited, spellings and errors (as in, VistingStarStar) abound. Excuses? Um, I have to fight for computer time with Sky and sometimes Guy, lazy, just want to have fun and not work hard at it, I figure you can look up most stuff yourself if you want, it's a blog, not a news article, etc. I'm just happy that I get to share this stuff because, well, according to "Stuff White People Like," that's what white people do. Haha. Something else for you to google.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7pg74CsxwP0L8hRlAN4mB2D5fVOufYyWm7U4atAeDRagWy2HVp0JQBJJjo6rOvjAfmqKhYmzhu_FMGDsyJ928ChyphenhyphenYB5q4IeRCcNhe7IvSxG3grukf5SYLFXiB27U8D8vcvR1iSg7BIMaG/s1600-h/P5030019.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7pg74CsxwP0L8hRlAN4mB2D5fVOufYyWm7U4atAeDRagWy2HVp0JQBJJjo6rOvjAfmqKhYmzhu_FMGDsyJ928ChyphenhyphenYB5q4IeRCcNhe7IvSxG3grukf5SYLFXiB27U8D8vcvR1iSg7BIMaG/s400/P5030019.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332676436089376514" border="0" /></a>Looking north.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhkV1uoTXGvdai-hQH24wORfE8w3LCqnSLSvFRthiNx36HofETIA0W8ZlkLu4RkGcykXJR-vvlGV1bGPjP1O81u_KT5XSJKQ-vok02NBvWPo1eeRrZNbPLXrKxFsgNWLvkyuk51zRlF1qT/s1600-h/P5030022.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhkV1uoTXGvdai-hQH24wORfE8w3LCqnSLSvFRthiNx36HofETIA0W8ZlkLu4RkGcykXJR-vvlGV1bGPjP1O81u_KT5XSJKQ-vok02NBvWPo1eeRrZNbPLXrKxFsgNWLvkyuk51zRlF1qT/s400/P5030022.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332676432201286706" border="0" /></a>The middle structure below is notable only because on the roof is a nightclub called the Ci Ci park which Sky and Guy hung out at.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoyCDVsJoBaBjYPpjC2ipmg0BSsJphxrkZIqgHDzN7o4UbfkTYtsoE_CvtlOv8XCgugiUKow2edy6gAG0RYg0B7BjdAttDo8z8XSjT7JDVO5OA-jZ16OvzAojcbJkSviBCdZHpqJtuLcnG/s1600-h/P5030026.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoyCDVsJoBaBjYPpjC2ipmg0BSsJphxrkZIqgHDzN7o4UbfkTYtsoE_CvtlOv8XCgugiUKow2edy6gAG0RYg0B7BjdAttDo8z8XSjT7JDVO5OA-jZ16OvzAojcbJkSviBCdZHpqJtuLcnG/s400/P5030026.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332676426693903362" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGONvG_oOIY9USP5VdhMwjHV187UWX26ffqQ1YWayIl7CcBVNItVYhGwL1EjKckA11sRJPfbV1SmbgpXBL-67q9nYRZDMftQJ77ViLGJ495nWxtxsDXk_mEMLtEj8Y_PKougispkbdMJNV/s1600-h/P5030029.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGONvG_oOIY9USP5VdhMwjHV187UWX26ffqQ1YWayIl7CcBVNItVYhGwL1EjKckA11sRJPfbV1SmbgpXBL-67q9nYRZDMftQJ77ViLGJ495nWxtxsDXk_mEMLtEj8Y_PKougispkbdMJNV/s400/P5030029.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332696110355570802" border="0" /></a>The two black high rises in the middle are the ones the kids live in. They're to the right. They live on the 25th floor, our little apartment is on the 17th.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgChq3ggHamyl57rN7dO8VOLQMlitEjUy36ljMiEP1NcHd6QbeFfPDgeE6fH1NByMGUGLKmguRwQv_cmTx0K4-W42FemuOk9Iw1qb059NpsQrZ0OyL2Vtbuo-z-W_zwGe1x4xEKEJvfK2c6/s1600-h/P5030032.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgChq3ggHamyl57rN7dO8VOLQMlitEjUy36ljMiEP1NcHd6QbeFfPDgeE6fH1NByMGUGLKmguRwQv_cmTx0K4-W42FemuOk9Iw1qb059NpsQrZ0OyL2Vtbuo-z-W_zwGe1x4xEKEJvfK2c6/s400/P5030032.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332669507458866130" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGeLtdGSGweiXqGh2O6KjfCflmvwLpbsJYKt9QlJQlR_wVAV8VKxp7NJsCiCrqhceMc2HcutKlFA-Wpe1n-NsEAL2AxM-X4ds2GiEQ4LpVbwhfCtVXw9tRWQDa5-hd6ZjnZHzlq4m1TC7R/s1600-h/P5030035.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGeLtdGSGweiXqGh2O6KjfCflmvwLpbsJYKt9QlJQlR_wVAV8VKxp7NJsCiCrqhceMc2HcutKlFA-Wpe1n-NsEAL2AxM-X4ds2GiEQ4LpVbwhfCtVXw9tRWQDa5-hd6ZjnZHzlq4m1TC7R/s400/P5030035.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332669502707740898" border="0" /></a>Men at work.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4lGxtLKBqjs7ecsmLu7g0XPmhu0eN1FJnVf0U5ELW_-m0HRJXdfsMXSiEUmGOTtp_MZGymJ3u5TGqMyU9qG69Cw8oSTX-emMYoLum1umO-hToG9mtE5MBxR2BWXl07lgVQZys2-esp3UV/s1600-h/P5030036.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4lGxtLKBqjs7ecsmLu7g0XPmhu0eN1FJnVf0U5ELW_-m0HRJXdfsMXSiEUmGOTtp_MZGymJ3u5TGqMyU9qG69Cw8oSTX-emMYoLum1umO-hToG9mtE5MBxR2BWXl07lgVQZys2-esp3UV/s400/P5030036.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332669496724346994" border="0" /></a>More men at work.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1zR_djvUerwpHRHPYLbYfXArJvycry9lVK59GyFSyNim3JVy5Z9QeNYQ9Scl_Nn2BcU423gXdzZft7YMj2JzJf0Bf6Q6u2xAWYZD1BvnwX2WVYKakFZdjHvq9inZlxZwcQW87_VoFDuS6/s1600-h/P5030039.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1zR_djvUerwpHRHPYLbYfXArJvycry9lVK59GyFSyNim3JVy5Z9QeNYQ9Scl_Nn2BcU423gXdzZft7YMj2JzJf0Bf6Q6u2xAWYZD1BvnwX2WVYKakFZdjHvq9inZlxZwcQW87_VoFDuS6/s400/P5030039.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332669493494181298" border="0" /></a>Ok, note the ceramic barrels on the bottom level of this floating restaurant. That is Byjoe, the local brew. It is clear, like vodka, and Guy reports it tastes like turpentine with other stuff mixed in. Like all regional alcohol, I'm sure one has to develop a taste for it.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikM9o2OSHzhGVdbrtf0TV20A1qNeN33PjkuHSTNnDTE3OQUTynIRi4mbRjto1D2BxU1eXP0pFYpxSNSK7FSY3sxKk2lntfiBNk17nmBkKmVWbBhpaJcSVrwwJX5ttCb4ePSm7HKMGLZYNM/s1600-h/P5030043.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikM9o2OSHzhGVdbrtf0TV20A1qNeN33PjkuHSTNnDTE3OQUTynIRi4mbRjto1D2BxU1eXP0pFYpxSNSK7FSY3sxKk2lntfiBNk17nmBkKmVWbBhpaJcSVrwwJX5ttCb4ePSm7HKMGLZYNM/s400/P5030043.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332669488988513074" border="0" /></a>This lone fisherman was interesting because it brought up the fact that there are no private craft on the river, besides this inflatable. Apparently it is against the law to own your own boat, unless you are very rich and find a way around the law.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje_G9nfJF5f0gAGJhJuvl5BdyPOCGhweDhcZwetxhkodS9kZ5wJL6KC4ZyBiGiFsZgd0C0Bdob1_H-roCwu1t_tj5prtjnKjqsx3FMZtfSKIeHm2hSTcZgiclnVTt0KlRf3OqrNKWCcegH/s1600-h/P5030046.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje_G9nfJF5f0gAGJhJuvl5BdyPOCGhweDhcZwetxhkodS9kZ5wJL6KC4ZyBiGiFsZgd0C0Bdob1_H-roCwu1t_tj5prtjnKjqsx3FMZtfSKIeHm2hSTcZgiclnVTt0KlRf3OqrNKWCcegH/s400/P5030046.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332667019985387570" border="0" /></a>Sky points out the good feng shui on this group of buildings.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpri5nleJlixVPIrPTPZ48-ql2BdT4EmtYNQ73cyEkXW_aaUYeFWGAHxRxVWdeNS3GqK0AIgQpJEAAKkDCsV-XkhFrpm8ZHagGTvQiZW6BkOArNNDcyPHnlbnXoVex1nBM6UmK3RiHoHRi/s1600-h/P5030051.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpri5nleJlixVPIrPTPZ48-ql2BdT4EmtYNQ73cyEkXW_aaUYeFWGAHxRxVWdeNS3GqK0AIgQpJEAAKkDCsV-XkhFrpm8ZHagGTvQiZW6BkOArNNDcyPHnlbnXoVex1nBM6UmK3RiHoHRi/s400/P5030051.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332667017074527586" border="0" /></a>Here is a fisherman who is visible from our apartment building. Not that I had ever noticed him, but when we passed him Guy yelled and waved then turned to us and said, "There's my fishing buddy." I was amazed - it is his want to make friends wherever he goes, especially those men who share his interests, but when did he have time to make friends with this guy? No, he explained to me, he hadn't actually spoken to him, but he watches him every day during those early morning hours that I sleep and he paces the floor. It made me think. Do we begin the process of friendship before we even meet people? Of course, I suppose we do. I'd just never thought about it.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzXS87mYP2Lwil0K-SeQNL7B2YgtZCbux5eno5nCy8HGpyEcw-EToQssEQmklJoPGmlte8P3h6CqWxCo2z8vI9rWIfu2Fkhhy-DOalsXXZUTrDqb1R4_5ZC7NKkaXhoSNChGFzRrdHyjBs/s1600-h/P5030056.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzXS87mYP2Lwil0K-SeQNL7B2YgtZCbux5eno5nCy8HGpyEcw-EToQssEQmklJoPGmlte8P3h6CqWxCo2z8vI9rWIfu2Fkhhy-DOalsXXZUTrDqb1R4_5ZC7NKkaXhoSNChGFzRrdHyjBs/s400/P5030056.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332667009257796738" border="0" /></a>Coming back down the Jia Ling, getting ready to turn the corner and go up the Yangtze.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAEYwM88gr7pGSgAzQV97W7HjDdW-ZpynY1r2mf3kx1H5IKdtIAYzV4fWVqdMcRmrGdOXsahcikXN8_lSCVPw_zmrPeOFL7RiGyYsSf9cfpucYq_ouVxyTQuZwQeE5nvWPuhVDi_unwzPB/s1600-h/P5030059.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAEYwM88gr7pGSgAzQV97W7HjDdW-ZpynY1r2mf3kx1H5IKdtIAYzV4fWVqdMcRmrGdOXsahcikXN8_lSCVPw_zmrPeOFL7RiGyYsSf9cfpucYq_ouVxyTQuZwQeE5nvWPuhVDi_unwzPB/s400/P5030059.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332667006943968242" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1lPgilpNSbjPHBzxmbo5E5bIpd9U41I5PFJEXIaccRWDeLqiiYG7wJjb-rWm1yaB6uCXajSjbKp0ekC3-V-EkfRScl1mBAm4-xuUoFuctDGIv4EIxGYZIFPzVMc70-EaAq2dWKSsNP5Gj/s1600-h/P5030061.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1lPgilpNSbjPHBzxmbo5E5bIpd9U41I5PFJEXIaccRWDeLqiiYG7wJjb-rWm1yaB6uCXajSjbKp0ekC3-V-EkfRScl1mBAm4-xuUoFuctDGIv4EIxGYZIFPzVMc70-EaAq2dWKSsNP5Gj/s400/P5030061.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332667006826937282" border="0" /></a>This is a front view of the opera house, which faces the junction of the two rivers.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH7rZn-ZngL7b6A6joZ60rCRQN4BC5meWObYueXWWEDc4zrfWzFPd9WCaHecD5dJIaZz_9A2W-yi6tNFniTYTj7YuoYr82egI0iuSZ8NpHEzreZ_vJVIil3T_V4-R3Eb2OkQAxHMGOeQ1b/s1600-h/P5030062.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH7rZn-ZngL7b6A6joZ60rCRQN4BC5meWObYueXWWEDc4zrfWzFPd9WCaHecD5dJIaZz_9A2W-yi6tNFniTYTj7YuoYr82egI0iuSZ8NpHEzreZ_vJVIil3T_V4-R3Eb2OkQAxHMGOeQ1b/s400/P5030062.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332664855858706402" border="0" /></a>Going up the Yangzee, this is the south side of the river.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD79Y6kmPEHiXAqFxqALNSrqlJ3UoOPRYOJ9J9BsNoclJRYm8SneeT_Oia8rY0pcDo9R50SCVPOD5dTVGA7_u615_N4EoK1SCGxFQ-YtP_R809nyk0jDw5t4xql8uMvWTaRKGQsLMl3U1E/s1600-h/P5040071.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD79Y6kmPEHiXAqFxqALNSrqlJ3UoOPRYOJ9J9BsNoclJRYm8SneeT_Oia8rY0pcDo9R50SCVPOD5dTVGA7_u615_N4EoK1SCGxFQ-YtP_R809nyk0jDw5t4xql8uMvWTaRKGQsLMl3U1E/s400/P5040071.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332664852695006146" border="0" /></a>South side of the river.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoH1GwryxFDYnbui5GeNvkCC_pPh9sYtY-0J0QBTg1y_ERgjGmPJ0lC3yUpMX-wuAVGdaCP3tSCFxFfQ02x-ubuI-wrXalcHyp1RuYI5X3EwyO4RQapvKP_FSJAW_WvBqzYAeIkQ4AZ6uI/s1600-h/P5040075.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoH1GwryxFDYnbui5GeNvkCC_pPh9sYtY-0J0QBTg1y_ERgjGmPJ0lC3yUpMX-wuAVGdaCP3tSCFxFfQ02x-ubuI-wrXalcHyp1RuYI5X3EwyO4RQapvKP_FSJAW_WvBqzYAeIkQ4AZ6uI/s400/P5040075.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332664849884455922" border="0" /></a>Coming back down the river, facing the north side of the river and the downtown. In the middle you can see the building with the steeple which is Sky's work building, the one that is built after the Sears building in New York.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0X98JDQpJnBtbU1xVLKdpMu7aTogyczXUH9qg-y3v27uV0hx-EV5FQ_Ts9ogAeCVLaLoWEbJN_dcGxiSvJAiGED-kaBdJrlT52pTNS3DJmyrqxodpNoJJz_ALP2mYT07mUD_3bMAsWpSk/s1600-h/P5030009.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0X98JDQpJnBtbU1xVLKdpMu7aTogyczXUH9qg-y3v27uV0hx-EV5FQ_Ts9ogAeCVLaLoWEbJN_dcGxiSvJAiGED-kaBdJrlT52pTNS3DJmyrqxodpNoJJz_ALP2mYT07mUD_3bMAsWpSk/s400/P5030009.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332664847143832690" border="0" /></a>This is a river cruise boat that takes a week to go up to the Three Gorges Dam. Guy and I will take this the next time we come out.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzp0y2zbJlnWrLOhoVdpjdTFFii4dIMYyyM4kNyOMyHI336p51Ice0OvMbVkwE1OUuMpM0-2rOSnT6bkrof_cW3p8ckQV-9YpSMZd7a8v2Zrvf3Cg17p8jJjkd5t4gtdNbTNBPHQfNGrGg/s1600-h/P5040079.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzp0y2zbJlnWrLOhoVdpjdTFFii4dIMYyyM4kNyOMyHI336p51Ice0OvMbVkwE1OUuMpM0-2rOSnT6bkrof_cW3p8ckQV-9YpSMZd7a8v2Zrvf3Cg17p8jJjkd5t4gtdNbTNBPHQfNGrGg/s400/P5040079.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332664841105462194" border="0" /></a><br />And we have arrived. P.S. Guy survived the stairs just fine. I was the one who got winded.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-35109528168309085342009-05-06T02:00:00.000-07:002009-05-06T02:09:37.074-07:00Baby Star<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvK5RlWKDRU16oHWloEIq5BlWIvy3MuHUE5asJlOeb_oNV-8IoK4utZV2KbvZaQZxQKH2mfGwWIxoleZkpMRVW-fe85LUWS9MVhyphenhyphenfOQC5wddFzAE1iYY_mJG2LUxICNKIxH0HQP4LkljO5/s1600-h/P5020012.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvK5RlWKDRU16oHWloEIq5BlWIvy3MuHUE5asJlOeb_oNV-8IoK4utZV2KbvZaQZxQKH2mfGwWIxoleZkpMRVW-fe85LUWS9MVhyphenhyphenfOQC5wddFzAE1iYY_mJG2LUxICNKIxH0HQP4LkljO5/s400/P5020012.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332634817723668466" border="0" /></a>I've had some requests for a few more photos of the star of Vis(i)ting Star Star. Always happy to oblige those!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIUBTq8H_ynkD8lTtUXa-yi6cqqmVBU6XgiO0YGAlK3zEzhY-Zm3bf-dsiVMgXu7UzmvybOZfq7PkcJz5GFYoYiLiPdIgdi0damHtGrwljGqMySFKX3DUbbuYoVBwo39pWtiKlZ9VstES/s1600-h/P5020011.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIUBTq8H_ynkD8lTtUXa-yi6cqqmVBU6XgiO0YGAlK3zEzhY-Zm3bf-dsiVMgXu7UzmvybOZfq7PkcJz5GFYoYiLiPdIgdi0damHtGrwljGqMySFKX3DUbbuYoVBwo39pWtiKlZ9VstES/s400/P5020011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332634812657233890" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpp8JLTe6gDx8OC1vGaSVg1EX7Q2nxUndYH3AYDDIiD7XNNuAcaadOMIiqvc423qfPcmRA6EAikFhed4pw8K_r-RE2xMeqx3Qw588dO4SW8WSdmht8XwW5xwkHTdO2DNWUAwTTDzWCX51-/s1600-h/P5020010.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpp8JLTe6gDx8OC1vGaSVg1EX7Q2nxUndYH3AYDDIiD7XNNuAcaadOMIiqvc423qfPcmRA6EAikFhed4pw8K_r-RE2xMeqx3Qw588dO4SW8WSdmht8XwW5xwkHTdO2DNWUAwTTDzWCX51-/s400/P5020010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332634809709814306" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirh0yjr3pfG6xI8F8DWHuF9MUpuhuQyNUREaVSeI4MzIeOBGj3T6YoQhTnteFcFObEv7pC5ZAqFcQDmXVUMKk3qkgPVE2KcP-EqUk4hAU2P335az4pUtfUSrSATdvCYuw9DKm9hogFrrXB/s1600-h/P5020009.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirh0yjr3pfG6xI8F8DWHuF9MUpuhuQyNUREaVSeI4MzIeOBGj3T6YoQhTnteFcFObEv7pC5ZAqFcQDmXVUMKk3qkgPVE2KcP-EqUk4hAU2P335az4pUtfUSrSATdvCYuw9DKm9hogFrrXB/s400/P5020009.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332634803798033234" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121221584176853732.post-78366074076891009952009-05-06T01:53:00.001-07:002009-05-06T02:00:32.626-07:00Dylan, these are for you.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitGbVkD_UHnrx3RzIAGhq0NsAC9WxJQvO29BO5PZvYmcmAo4wHYE59rIS1Px0Y0V-vKXCrOkJ3Fyr8T47Kmpjbxfz4RymaOe_1UG0WAA4w-TtpCln2jp623-wpxb6JvM7ORF0yB4NFJa8P/s1600-h/DSC00837.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitGbVkD_UHnrx3RzIAGhq0NsAC9WxJQvO29BO5PZvYmcmAo4wHYE59rIS1Px0Y0V-vKXCrOkJ3Fyr8T47Kmpjbxfz4RymaOe_1UG0WAA4w-TtpCln2jp623-wpxb6JvM7ORF0yB4NFJa8P/s400/DSC00837.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332632606642661554" border="0" /></a>Dylan, Papa G said you were studying bugs at pre-school so he took these photos for you. He asked me to post them on baby Star's blog so you could look at them. He did not tell me the names of them so maybe mom and dad could help you with that. love, Nana<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGrw8jvTrR_CZCLUFJSvfGNdaxaAl3UiIjdCQHo0z32h3OENeMZ6HoA2fHqEgdYG-dq4XmbCic2JqHuXRTQXjM-00UcKYED_drOydFcpFYfoxG26YeOCj1No5-2j1CIsN8XHgaVEC1sW3s/s1600-h/DSC00838.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGrw8jvTrR_CZCLUFJSvfGNdaxaAl3UiIjdCQHo0z32h3OENeMZ6HoA2fHqEgdYG-dq4XmbCic2JqHuXRTQXjM-00UcKYED_drOydFcpFYfoxG26YeOCj1No5-2j1CIsN8XHgaVEC1sW3s/s400/DSC00838.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332632597461186258" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnGzHWymp697BnApDqyLaTskfWAtojBVTONyycH9woTsgC372qlsT8eQBQOX1U0tE9SDy1A1iUWMBfZUDsyzuHzh_doFEqJZDs5SLbKQFdg3QVlweAW-dNOoRV2ADZAu_EQyV1ZE28eJh/s1600-h/P5010007.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnGzHWymp697BnApDqyLaTskfWAtojBVTONyycH9woTsgC372qlsT8eQBQOX1U0tE9SDy1A1iUWMBfZUDsyzuHzh_doFEqJZDs5SLbKQFdg3QVlweAW-dNOoRV2ADZAu_EQyV1ZE28eJh/s400/P5010007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332632589617807602" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0