Monthly Archives: December 2014

2014 in review — Thanks for reading our little blog

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,300 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading

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Christmas in Hong Kong

Talk about a multicultural Christmas experience.  We saw this Santa Buddha on the street in Hong Kong. Somehow, Ann was able to score some very inexpensive hotel reservations and tickets to see Phantom of the Opera in Hong Kong over … Continue reading

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Hangin’ out in Hangzhou

Hangzhou!  Our wonderful university GDUFS flew all the foreign language teachers out for the weekend to this magical city.  We lucked out on our way back from the silk market when we ran across a great little parade full of … Continue reading

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Chinese Wishing Bells

We recently took a trip to Hangzhou in northern China with the other foreign teachers from our university.  These are Chinese wishing bells.  You write your wish on the wooden part and as the bell rings, your wishes come true. … Continue reading

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