Xixi Wetlands Park

Praise the Lord we now have pictures uploaded succesfully!  Here you see a tower, in front of which anyone who wished could beat rice with a gigantic pestle.  Next you see one of our activities: learning to fly (how's your high jump?)  A pose on one of the bridges shows the children enjoying the bright sunshine.  Last Friday the weatherman said "snow" and God said "sunshine"....and we've had it ever since.

Baby Joseph is in the foreground of the last picture, getting ready to eat.  He was delighted with the books about bears that we gave him.  He looked at the first and said "Wang wang wang!" (which is what all Chinese-speaking dogs say instead of "bow wow wow!")  "No, it's a bear," his mother corrected, "What's this?"and he was shown the next book.  "Wang wang, wang!" he guessed again.  By the third one his "Wang wang wang" was uncertain, and he quickly changed to "Laosu"  (mouse)) while we laughed.  "What does the bear like?"   Joseph (excitedly): "HONEY!"  (in English).   What a cute age he is!