Aah.....Maylee in her big girl panties, holding her Hello Kitty purse and enjoying a vegetable pretzel stick, first thing in the morning.
Here is the view from our balcony to the playground below.
Here's another one of those things they do here with no safety precautions. I was so mad that I couldn't get a picture fast enough but when I looked out my kitchen window I saw this guy up ON TOP of the air conditioner (like the one above him) and he was unscrewing it......mind you, we do live on the 35th floor and there where, again, no safety harness or anything of the sorts. This picture is after he got the unit into the apartment. Another thing Maylee and I have seen, is a guy that was ON TOP of a sign 2 stories up changing the light bulb with no safety restraints.
One slip and this is what the fall would have been like. I don't think you can see the red dots of their shirts but they are at the top of this photo. The crazy things they do here in China!
Here they are pulling it up over the ledge. They had no kind of restraints and had the ropes in their hands freely.
and this is what they were doing.......it's a huge frame of some sort.
This is one of the many gods that are in the temple......don't ask me which it is I just thought it was a good picture.
These are carved dragons
Isn't it pretty
Tommy went out of town on a business trip so in the evenings Maylee and I would get bored and after dinner we would go just outside of our apartment and walk around. This little boy took a great interest in Maylee and kept wanting to hug her and touch her. This picture is the second night we went out and hung out with him and he gave Maylee a strawberry milk drink. The third night we went out to meet him and he was dressed in pink and had a pony tail......guess it was a girl after all. Never can tell no one cares about color here.
This is the community temple......I think the temples are very neat!
After we left YunDong Yan mountain, we went to Xiao Su's parents house and were honered to be their guests for lunch, the food was amazing! After we ate we took the kids for a ride in their little community, Tommy and I even got a haircut. Aren't the girls cute together!
On our way from the mountain we saw one of these tractor truck things that Tommy gets a kick out of. He sees them quite often when he is out of the city.
Looking back up after we mastered the mountain.....okay, so the temple isn't quite mid mountain.
The beautiful view coming down.
Here are some more carved stairs we had to master in order to get down the "short cut" way. This is our driver, Xiao Chen and his wife Xiao Su, they had to carry 2 little ones the whole time.
Here's a view of the stairs......they are carved into the rock.
The hike was all stairs, the Chinese seem to really like stairs....every where you go "hiking" is stairs. These were the stairs that were the "short cut".
Here he is taking a picture of himself at the tippy top.
Fun picture of Maylee and Tommy. Tommy is at the tippy top.
View from the tippy top
At times it was a tight fit.
Isn't it pretty!
This is one of the views from the top.
This is a temple that is about mid mountain.
Here's the mountain that we climbed.
We heard there were some kind of fireworks for a convention that was being held here and it was within walking distance. The fireworks lasted for almost 1 1/2 hours straight and were the most amazing fireworks any of us had EVER seen.
Xiamen at night view from Gulanguy.
Maylee and Mommy with Xiamen at night in the background.
Maylee and Daddy with Gulanguy in the background.
Come on daddy, I will show you what I want.......
but I want one!
More of Gulangyu but taken while on the island. No bikes or motorized vehicles allowed on the island. This tunnel is for walking.
Maylee and Mommy sharing a coconut on the beach of the island.
Maylee's first experience of sharing.
Who are all those people gathered around? Is it someone famous? If you look close you can see Tommy's head and Maylee's pink shoes in the middle of all those people. It started out that Maylee went to pet someones dog and then before we knew it people had surrounded her to take a look at the Mag-guo piao-liarng xiao may may (American pretty younger sister). She was a big star on the island with many people taking pictures, touching her skin & hair and asking to hold her.
View of Gulangyu from Ferry
