I thought that this flower was pretty.

This is a market near our home.  They sell a lot of fruit here.  I like to buy pomegranates, star fruit, mangoes, and watermelon.  When my dad was taking this picture, his contact lens fell out.  Some Chinese people helped him find it. 

Here I am feeding a giraffe at the zoo.  They have really long necks.  Their tongues are long and bluish pink. 

When we picked up this package at the post office, we found that a rat had chewed a hole in it.  It liked the box of jello. 

This is an old-style Chinese pillow.  It is made out of pottery.  I don't think that I could sleep with pillow that is so hard.

We went to an election party at a hotel in Guangzhou.  Since the Chinese people don't vote, many of them asked questions about the election.  Most of the people there were happy that the President won. 

For Halloween, we carved a watermelon, a dragon fruit, and a pumpkin.  They were scary!  Mine is the watermelon. 

This is the LDS temple in Hong Kong. Jenna did baptisms for the dead here. 

Here is Jenna and her friend Naomi on the Hong Kong ferry. 

This is a busy street in Hong Kong.  We were on a long escalator when my dad took this picture. 

In Shanxi, we had breakfasts at our hotel.  Here are some of the foods we ate.  I think the butterfly was pretty.  I liked the bacon best (there isn't any bacon in this picture. 

This is where we looked at the statues of Buddha.  Can you see that there are three?  One is hiding in a cave--you can see its head.  Jenna and I are standing in front of the hidden Buddha. 

This is the orphanage where I lived for the first two years of my life.  The person with Jenna and me is the orphanage director.  They put up a sign to welcome me back.

This is the room where I stayed.  One of these cribs was mine.  I think it is the one in the corner.  Mom is saying hello to this little guy. He smiled at her.

This was where I was found when I was only five days old.  It is near the street at the front of the orphanage. 

These are people's prayers at a Taoist temple that we visited.  They hang them in a tree.

I am in a cave.  We went to a place where there were many caves with statues of Buddha in them.  It was amazing.  Some were really big and some were really small. 

This me and my family at the Hanging Temple in Shanxi.  Why it is called the Hanging Temple is because it is built on a cliff.  Hundreds of years ago, Buddhist Monks came here to be alone and pray.  The stairs were very little and it was easy to fall down them.  I didn't fall down, though.  See the pumpkins on the roof.  They are made of clay.

Here is another picture of the Hanging Temple. 

We went to a place where they made ceramics--ceramics means pots and stuff like that.  This guy is making a pot. 

My sister and I are doing kung fu.  Jenna kicks almost as high as the red guy. 

This is a ceramic rooster.  I bought it because I was born in the Chinese year of the rooster. 

We are having dinner with some of my dad's students--Wang, Aviva, Mailin, Apple, and Lin.  We are having noodles that they make right there in the store.  When they make the noodles, a guy takes some dough and stretches it out several times until he has enough noodles.  We figured it out that when he stretches it seven times (doubling each time), it makes 64 noodles.  I like Chinese noodles.   

This is the city of Guangzhou and the Pearl River.  We live in this picture, though you can't see our house because the big buildings are in the way. 

On September 30th, the Chinese had the Mid-Autumn Festival.  We ate moon cakes and walked in the park with our lanterns. 

This is me and my sister Jenna and my friends, Amelia and Anna.  My friends were adopted like me.  We are at a museum. 

Here are some people praying to Buddha at the temple. 

These are little kids playing with a drum.  I like their dresses.  One has a sticking up pony tail and one has two down pony tails.