Hi from China.  My family and I are getting ready to come home soon.  We will return to Idaho on January 29, 2013.  See you soon!

New Post, Finally

In China it is hard to blog because the government shuts down some websites.  It has been quite a while since we were able to get on here to post.  Since our last post, we have visited the cold Northeast part of China in a city called Changchun.  We went there for a conference of Fulbright teachers.  I enjoyed playing with Maggie Smith, who is the daughter of a Fulbright teacher.  Yesterday we returned from Taiwan.  I liked it.  It was a busy place.  My dad was a missionary in Taiwan thirty years ago, so we went to visit some of the places he lived.  We will be returning to the U.S. in about three weeks.  I can't wait to get home so that I can see our pets, see my family, play with my friends, go sledding, and eat some hot dogs.  Please make some comments on the blog to let me know how you are doing.  I can't wait to see you all. 

Here is a banana tree with a banana flower and green bananas growing above it.

Here I am in front of a cool garbage can!  We went to Northeast China and it was really cold.  Here it was almost 15 degrees below zero.  I got to play with my friend Maggie, who lives in this city.  In South China they can grow bananas at this time of year, but in North China it is as cold as Idaho in the winter.

This is the Longshan Temple in Taipei.  We visited it at night.  People were worshiping by burning incense.  I didn't like the smell.

Here is the LDS temple in Taipei.  Jenna and I stayed in the church while my Mom and Dad went through the temple. 

We fed some pigeons at a place called the Chaing Kai Shek Memorial.  It was a really big place with lots of birds.  I had a bird eat out of my hand.   

I'm rowing a boat on the lake at Taichung Park in Taiwan.  My dad was a missionary in this city 32 years ago.

In Taiwan, we went to a Buddhist temple in a town near the ocean.  It had a lot of statues.  It had a lot of colors, too. 

Here is a street in Taiwan at night.  There are a lot of signs.