Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Our Monks got kidnapped

They changed the picture on our floor. Thought I was on the wrong floor

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Art Gallery in BJ


Cute little Chinese child


Chinese version of Cat's Cradle


Need a series of gangsta pandas


Lot of talented artists here, over 5,000 students at this school


Each student had one day to display and sell their paintings.

Beijing Antique Flea Markey


Nice BMW side car - I should have one


how old is this guy - he is on tour in BJ? Wow he has to be in his 70's


Nice turtle fossil


Good ammonites and echioderms - Ben needs to come over and go fossil shopping with me.


Mastodone or mammoth teeth - there were others that were in better shape


Fossil Dragon Fly - 1200 RMB should have bought it. This guy had some great fossils.

Students in BJ

They found me near Forbidden City, they are from HeBei Province. They want to practice English with me.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Really cool table - solid wood

Close up of fire we saw from office

It is an apartment fire. Hope every one got out safe

Another fire in BJ

It appeears to be an apartment building fire. Can't really see what is burning, it is behind another building. Notice the burned out shell of the CCTV hotel on the right, I watched that burn 2 yrs ago. Spectacular fire. Bj FD not really very quick to respond, stuck in traffic on freeway.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Back to the croc restaurant

This is smaller than the last time when I almost stepped on the live one on the floor

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Sunday March 13th

I woke up this morning and it was really polluted outside. I spent about 75 mins on Skype with Grandma Davis. Gary and Pam brought her to their home so we could Skype. Grandma was pretty impressed with the technology.

Today was F & T meeting and we had some very powerfully testimonies given, it was a great meeting. Last Wed - Fri was the SE Asia Women's Conference in HK. One of the Sisters in the branch that attended the conference got up and told a story about how she had been a missionary 20 yrs ago in HK and had baptized a lady. She wanted to find her and meet up at the Conference, so she sent a friend in HK a yellow sticky note with just the ladies name and 20 yr old address + her email address in BJ. After about 2 weeks the yellow sticky note found its way to the lady in HK. She sent an email back that said, I don't know who you are or why you are looking for me - but might you be the Sister that taught me the Gosple?" So of all the possiblilies of who could be trying to contact her - she thought it might be her missionary. So when Sister Barton was in HK for the conference she was able to meet up with the women she taught and baptized 20 yrs ago. This ladies son is now on a mission - his mom had him write an email to Sister Barton from the mission field thanking her for teaching their family. This lady has brought 7 members of her family into the Church and has another son preparing to go on a mission. They got to attend the HK Temple together. Sister Barton said every family member constantly thanked her bringing the Gospel into their lives.

After church it was very windy and all the pollution was gone, so I walked home -it was sunny and warm, a bit windy. I changed and went for a really long exploration of the neighborhood. Found an April Gourmet store about 5 mins from the house. They have a nice selection of fresh meat and reasonable prices, $4.50 for a Duncan Hines cake mix. Also found the WuMart - I guess that is a knock off on Wal Mart - its a big store with lots of good stuff - much closer than the real Wal Mart. Also found one of the other apartment building I was shown when here house hunting. They teach fencing in their gym + they have a climbing wall. But i think it was for residents only.

See ya later

Green and brown eggs

Found a WuMart near the house - octopus

This is a big place - lots of interesting things for sale

Puppies for sale - as PETS

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Our neighborhood

The tall bldg on right is our apartment, the place with red globes is the nearest supermarket. Nice day - I walked home from church in suit coat, got lots of looks being in a suit.

Workers all over the world are the same

Notice 2 with shovels and the rest watching them work.

First one of these I have seen

It's a big tricycle

Friday, March 11, 2011

Monday, March 7, 2011

Saturday, March 5, 2011

The Monks that protect our floor

I'll have Terry post a better picture of it one of these days.