Lantern Festival Night

This is a extremely small sample of what it like around our apartment on the night of Lantern Festival at the end of the Lunar New Year. The fireworks have been going on for about 2 hours. These were lit about 200 feet from our apartment. The skies are literally filled with fireworks, and we live on the first floor with buildings blocking our view. It is an exciting night.

The tigers in Harbin

We saw many many tigers and other species at a "wild animal park" in Harbin. The pictures don't really capture the feeling of driving around with them outside the bus.

The white tiger was in a cage, but he was an impressive sight.

Snow sculptures in Harbin

In Harbin they have the ice sculptures, a whole city of several square kilometers, and then they have another area of snow sculptures which we viewed in the day time. Here is a small sample of what we saw.

More Harbin

Harbin

Do you think it was cold.....




Yes it was cold.

But it was so beautiful.

New Year's Eve

Here we are at a friends house ready to play games, eat and welcome in the New Year. We are grateful for warm Sweatshirts that remind us of home! We were with two other couples and a baby. We are thankful for friends

Maradel's class

A picture of a couple of my students taking pictures of me. Notice the cute one in the back that came over to walk me home!