More Miscellaneous Pics...

Our kids with their language teacher after they made dumplings...




HG giving a presentation about the lightbulb...




Hudson after being eaten by a frog...



All three with crowns after learning about Kings and Queens...

Sparklers

Just warming up for Chinese New Year in a few days...

Our Kids with their Great Grandmother

We had this shot from before we left of the kids with Felicia's grandmother, Gaga. We love you Gaga!

Tibetan Dinner

We ran into a group of students from Ole Miss and were invited to eat dinner with them at an awesome Tibetan restaurant about a half mile from our house. Here are some highlights...


Dancing and singing...



Our new friends and the delicious food. You may even see some yak butter tea in there......



HG with a Tibetan sash...



HG with two friends...

1.4%

I saw something before we came to China that said that the lack of clean drinking water kills more people everyday than anything else. Also, it would cost 10 billion dollars to make clean water available to every person on this planet. (I got these numbers from adventconspiracy.org) Anyway, all of this was happening during the bailout of America and the number they were throwing around was 700 billion dollars. That is quite a lot.

So, I have had these numbers rumbling about in my head for almost two months and was sitting there and thinking, for only 1.4% of the bailout, the entire world could have clean water. Only 1.4%! That is probably what the heads of some of these companies are hiding away for their family vacations. My thought was, "Why can't our country give just 1.4% to save lives while they give 98.6% to help struggling companies?"

I kinda grumbled about greed and politics and big business for a while. And then I heard a voice ask, "Where's your 1.4%?" Well, um, the, but, you know, I. No real answer. "Why do you expect that others should give what you aren't willing to give?" This really hit home. I really can't expect anyone or anything or organization to do something that I am not willing to do. And maybe it isn't even what I am willing to do, but what I am actually doing.

World Famous.

Looking at a friend's blog today, we ran across this. Follow closely and you will see Jason at the 1:46 mark as well as the 3:03 mark.




After watching this, it seems apparent that the next step for my career is to replace Chris Tucker in "Rush Hour 4: Life in Mengzi" with Jackie Chan. If you want to beat the rush, I can send you an autographed photo now.

Some random shots of our kids and the such....

Hi from Mai Dan Lao!



Racing with Daddy...



Running...



Riding the double decker bus through town...