Finally a New Blog

Nimon Hao,

So the Chinese government has been effectively cutting me off form my blog, well I'm back with a more random post, enjoy.

Traveling in style

Dinner's ready

It's clearly Spring...

Biking to a boat ride

Of course the bikes need to come too

Our trusty "captain" ... looks like he's winding up the boat

Off to the island

uh... well... it's an island...

On the way back

The new wheat is starting to pop up

Out door Dance Dance Revolution

Spicy!

Geeky...

HELLO!

The food train...

I don't know this guy... well I don't know either of these guys, but the headstone is pretty cool.

Helen's beautiful wedding

Can't even get a kid to smile with candy...

Awesome!

The new school is coming along nicely

Always able to find a party on the weekend.

Croquet is big here... for the very elderly...

Singing Children!

Zaijian

My Actul B-Day Post

Nimon Hao!
     So here's a summary of my birthday, from the cake at the Banquet on the night before, to dinner on my actual birthday.  Enjoy...

Not a Chocolate Shadow Cake, but it was ok...

Mr. Bai, before the baijio starts to flow

Me with 3 lovely ladies

Eerie... wooo... wooo... wooo

My Fellow Birthday boy Mr. Zhai

Tryi8ng on my new Mao Jacket

MMM... Bacon-ee

Han and Li and B-day lunch.  Waiting for the tasty goodness

Jing and the aforementioned tasty goodness

Yum, grilled Angus steak (or at least the closest thing I can get to Angus steak here)

Chicken and sauteed veggies, Jing is a heck of a table cook

POSE!

The price of being a smart aleck at lunch in China

My two Chinese mothers

Fish head anyone? Spicy and quite tasty

Brenda showing me just how it's done: "GO FOR THE EYES!!!"

Chocolate Mushrooms... not a drug, just tasty snacks

See? Tasty

My new hello kitty cup... yeah...

Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes. 3 decades down, hopefully quite a few more to go



Zaijian

30... a brief retrospective

Nimon Hao,
     As some of you might know I turn 30 this weekend (sigh). Well I thought it would be fitting to acknowledge the immense amounts of support I've received this year..  Well I'm really a man of few words (when sober), so... Thanks...

      Here are some random pictures

Median Tree... three times my age...

Just one of the hundreds of pictures of my pocket, or backpack... cozy...

Yum... Mush... really, really, hot mush... and I don't even know what it was mush of...

Hey I know that dude!

The Saddest monkey ever...

I just like this picture

This is where they make the burnt orange crayola crayons...

70 year old man tree... I think the fruit is ripe by now...

Truer Words were never spoken

This is one crazy train!

Zaijian

What a lame post... Don't worry I'm sure my Sunday post iwllo be full of entertaining B-Day Photos...