These are fried grasshoppers that we ordered at a restaurant.  I ate two of them, but I took off the legs of one and the head of the other.  They didn't taste like much.  They were just really crunchy.  The restaurant brought them by airplane from another part of China.

Jenna is going to eat a grasshopper.  We were all nervous about eating them, but they weren't too bad. 

We are eating a very expensive breakfast.  The food was pretty good.  It had a really nice view.  We were on the 29th floor of the highest building in Zhaoqing, a city near Guangzhou.  I was happy there was an elevator. 

 When we started feeding these fish, they started splashing and swimming on each other.  I like the black ones. 

This is me standing in front of a big door.  I am trying to look like the guy on the door. 

These are pretty colored scarves in the market at YangShuo, on our trip to Guilin. 

I am Santa Claus.  Merry Christmas.

I got to shoot an arrow at a park.  It was hard to shoot it. 

My family and I went to Guilin, about 300 miles from Guangzhou.  It had a lot of neat mountains.  Here we are near a cool river. 

Here I am at a Branch party, trying to bite a donut off of a string.  I couldn't use my hands. It was tasty and sugary!  I even got two.

We went on a boat up this river.  This picture shows the mountains and boats.  I liked it when we went through a cave while on the boat.  The mountains in this picture remind me of fingers and a thumb.

This is another hill in a place called Yangshuo. 

I am sitting in a chair carved out of wood.  It was not comfortable at all. 

Another picture of the hills.  It was raining.

These are pagodas in the middle of a river in Guilin.   They are really pretty.  

Hello!  The censors in China have been working overtime since the Chinese government just changed, so access to Tia's blog has been blocked much of the time.  We managed to get on today.

From Tia:We had a friend from Rexburg visit us.  Duane Adamson works with my dad.  He stayed in my room.  We took him to the Chen Family Temple.  And we went to Guilin for two days.  We rode a boat on the river and looked at the amazing mountains.  They had cool shapes and were really steep.  I got a beautiful purse there. 

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.