carseat tourist

chess

Teenager on Suzi

Ornament facination

Poly Sci Major

Makin cookies

Suzi with Awesome quilled head dress

Panda cat

Picking out the new horse

Watching her brother have his own friends

Charter Bus home, tv's video games-the deaf school shares with the blind school how cool!

First Day of school

They look so cute in the airport

Princess loves travelling

Bewitched in Salem

A family that canoes together, stays together

Only a real princess would wear her tiarra fishing

Pulling out

Little Guys loves s'mores

Princess caught this on her b-day

Teenager in the Lincoln Parade-not a happer camper

Luna Moth on our house

The circus peanut experiment

Little Guy loves to cast

Princess in the Lincoln Parade

The Glamp

A long way from China

Raise the colors

Now the tricky part of getting the fishing line to pull the rope up

The rod taped to the pole

A good use for an expensive fishing rod

Go MacGyver

Halfway done

Catch it

There were many casts before success

The blazing sun did not make the job easy

The safer ladder method, ladder to pole not a good idea

The problem

He really wanted to go fishing

Whiskey

Shenma

Moose at our Park sign

The view airlift (heart) flying over the sea while I wait for the ferry

The plane ride to Sanfrancisco

The ride to Seattle

Cool tornado display in waiting area of San Fran

The ride to Beijing

Ready to fly

The amazing details

Thank you cake from student

Pink Santa rocks!

wedding photos at St. Sophias

They are sooo cheesy, but sweet

That's a pencil not a cigar

The family

Virtual twins

Beijing cheese

The family photo

Little Guy

Gingerbread girl...thinking of warmer places

Princess and I do like these candied haws on a stick

recycled sprite bottles

Some of the store displays are so interesting

Wallyworlds Christmas Gingerbread Land-luv Santa!!!

travel advisory

The bag recieves the sticker of approval

Teenager and the quest for a taxi with the oversized case

Getting ready to meet the agent

silk

and more silk

You know its cold when the ice cream isn't in a cooler

Ice cream vender "off grid"

One skate was a little bit too tight and narrow

poor baby, just couldn't figure out why she was down

Sunset at the rink

This little cutie was playing hockey with her Baba

First try skating 2009

New cakes on display the dragon and the pheonix

This one reminds me of Lummi Island-the eagle & mountain

Bloodbath in the snow

One plug for the whole kitchen limits your cooking range

pumpkin pie, from a real pumpkin

The goose

Thawing the bird

Hat by Teenager

Look at the patience in the ayi's eyes during the shoe shopping tantrum

Making the ice rink!!!

Ayi ties on scarf (made by Teenager too) -18C

Going to School in the Artic

4 months-his hands say love in Chinese

Likes to make music at school

The real Chinese outfit

Yarn, some real wool, some cool unknown varieties

Real wool and lots of it!!!

Finger Knitting

Just as you imagined, we tie up Little Guy a force him to work

Oh, The yarn

Big spools sold by weight

Do you know the button man

Handmade hats for sale

Princess and our apartment complex

Little Guy was astonished at this, he wanted to get the clothes down

roof detail

Me and Little Guy

Deep...just kidding, the coats too big for the kid

Teenager

Snowman

child labor...kid was so happy to clean the car, my kids wished they had a car to clean!

At the doorway, Little Guy's first daylight view of snow

Walking home 1st night of snow

Hans, German wannabe restaurant with Chinese cowboys

Snow graffiti

High heel print in snow

Halloween outfit from Hot Mama shop

Display underground mall

Inside the Hot Mama shop

Chenglish at Hot Mama Shop

Leather and fish net underground mall

Russian chic on Halloween

Me at St. Sophias

Young man asked to take picture with Teenager

Teenager at St. Sophias

Little Guy at St. Sophias

Sweet Potato custards

Artists made us look so young!

It's not so bad, but I'm still scared. Check out the barber's do

Little Guy's fighting face

Trapped in the chair, Wouldn't look up

Opening the car the tie was a gift too

Cake with new chopsticks

And it opens to a flower of many candles

Then fireworks

They have the best candles over here, light the bulb

The cake

How you get the kid and cake to school at the same time

Warming up with some hot tea

Ducks don't swim in the toxic stuff, the floating balloons are nice.

Woman knitted with kids climbing all over her

Popcorn

Princess got some

Padded clothes with split pants. Why must the baby freeze it's buttt off?

The new library at our school- in top 5 largest in China

the Goat

stuff for sale

modern china

Horse

My little Monkey next to the Big Monkey

Chicken

Dog

Walking is like playing chicken with the motorcycles

Fall

Pig

Sax

Free Range Chickens

Blast off

fall leaves

Spraying the coal

Campus path

Teenager by courtyard

Whatever fell from the sky, landed on those veggies. Can you wash dried veggies?

Puddle downtown Harbin, far from our apartment

Sprayers

The dishes

The poncho

Looking at the fish

The fish

The restoration complete

Headless roof accent piece-display of restoration process

Fish God??

Ethnic cap

baby carrier

The fish coat

Restored Scholars

Praying for good grades...Pre-K is tough these days!

The temple

Not into girls yet

Cool wig

Bashful Wisteria & the Japanese Princess

Re-actment or photoshoot??

60th Anniversary

Roll out the green onions...fall is here!

Happy face red peppers

bike parking

park bench last fall

hanging cucumbers

Butterfly

First fall in China

photobooth girls

The many faces of Little Guy

National Day Wear

The parade didn't have clowns, but our house does!

Getting into the full handstand-don't drop him!

Yeah, I'm almost an American

Checking each other out-vest is handme down handmade for Teenager

Mooncake baby

Not loving the mooncake

Getting his hands dirty

All the girls in the class

All the boys in the class

Littles Guy's thinks this is his Daddy

All the chinese men wanted a photo with Teenager

Taxi

Taxi..taxi

Location of wedding

I think the old folks are so cute

The dramatic stairway

Happy couple

under the table, not getting out

under the table

oysters

the wedding

most of the dishes

Welcome to our Apartment Building

Look at my car

line of cars

Just finished signing "airplane"-boxes mean airplanes in his life

Cleanest school cafeteria in China, cooks train at Korean rest.

I actually live across the street from "A Decent Life"...so close

Why can't I have my saddle? He just couldn't bear it.

Statues near apartment

Going back to Harbin

flying high

got it going

Princess gets hers up, now they are running in opposite directions

flying kites by the soccer fields

Chris came & helped keep the kites afloat

Dang it!

Just for you buddy!

Cakes on display

The display

Freshly made on the stand

maky Baky cake Real chocolate, frosting, strawberries and blueberries

Dolphin

Princess, the artist

Zebra

Off to school, spider tie, wrist band, bug shirt, baseball hat. 100% boy.

Princess Wishing

Wish on Dandylion

Sunset from Apartment

Driver of the Ikea Mian Bao Che- chinese for bread van

signing airplane

swedish crayfish

changing the tire

Big smile- got that thing outta my ear

Pizza hut Hefei style

lovin' the sisters

Lighting up

stamp of approval

They love looking at themselves in the mirror

i love you in chinese sign

gotcha

Bike rollorcoaster

wooden plank bridge, in the water

cafeteria food looks the same all over the world

for sale, live

Year of the Ox

Sunset over Hefei

Photo taken with permission on the island

Hefei Science Island

Mama cat feeds baby cat at island market

Newspapers are posted for students to read

Garden shack

A book on the garden gate

Princess and my youngest student, age 5 (maybe)

Roses!!

Mowing the grass with a sythe.

In the uniform

"Now I like this place"

Western breakfast

My favorite corn dish

Chris's bunk on the train

Riding the rails

Mexican food in China!!!

Raspberries-3 years since I had fresh ones!!!!!

Teenager and the conductor

Looking 4 luck, there is a island of clover infront of the building we teach in. It has lots of 4 leaf clovers.

Grandma 1982

The front entrance has giant inflatable lucky animals.

Ayi's mom age 70, so proud & sweet!

Teenager and the bride

This dish was good, some kind of coconut fried pastry

After the wedding guests were given bags to take home food, our table was rushed because we had lots of leftovers.

The bride & groom toast each table, about 20. She's drinking H2O, he's toasting with chinese moonshine, baijiu

Dress 3, the familis say things & they drink together

The food. Several dishes straight off the China Survivor food challenge. Nothing we haven't eaten before!

Lamp in waiting area

light fixture

This palace was wedding dreams come true. They seemed to cater to every imaginable bridal fantasy.

Dress 1. Bride and groom arrive in the same car.

Groom's family

Walking to the wedding.

Teenager. High heels come in handy in the flash flood. A little dangerous though.

The red bowl is very important. It is carried to the various apartments before the wedding and to the ceremony.

The bride gets out of the car & pins a flower in the ayi's hair

The ayi (groom's mom) gives the bride a red envelope.

Delivering lunch

Shenyang Preschool

Eating at Shenyang Preschool

After the big show, Princess in Pink, fellow Princess in White

final exams

building where we teach

backseat cyclist, that bike is nicknamed "the stationwagon"

big M on the jean pocket

The Black Swan, a resort on the otherside of Harbin. We celebrated Dragon Boat Day with our "work unit" there.

I can't wait to hug the real boy

Swapbot scrapbook page

Filling out the label

princess building the yurt

our grapes

the coal trucks rolling in

Beijing Olympics row 8, AKA front row, everybody knows 8 is a lucky #

Swinging family. Give the brother a push.

Playing on the exercise equipment

Eating corn at KFC

BBQ at 5 mile park in Shenyang

Dalian has a even has panda

The Dalian zoo 1/2world class& 1/2 old school-pose with the animals,etc

Every night we played in a maze near the beach. Hide &seek, race thru the maze

Count the shoes, 1st we counted starfish but there were so many more shoes so it was a little game each night, don't worry, the recyclers came each day to collect them.

Dalian fisherman

Mom Panda

Mom chic

Panda head

chic head

Little tiger

meow, tiger head, look at the cute tail!

Mom and son

froggie baby

Bunny and chics at the kiosk

little miss playing with her chics

mom and sister chic

the stuffed family

care package

Artist

Wedding photos

Hamamas

rainbow

the flower and the rainbow

the 1st bloom

Captured Fairy

Cabin on Lummi Island

blossoms

Building 41

My other job