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Since Chinese toilets look like this,

we sometimes need reminders on what to do when we occasionally come across a western toilet.

In a typical park in China you will find...

• more adults than children
• workout equipment instead of a playground
• Adult sized monkey bars
• At least 4 ping pong tables cemented into the pavement. 
• an occasional back massager thingy
• Over 100 people gathered around a stage doing Chinese line dances. It's a pretty normal thing here.

Results of humidity

• mold infested bathroom ceiling
• moldy scripture case
• moldy suitcase
• moldy ipod armband 
•  moldy flip flops
• bad hair day, everyday
• damp, musty smelling clothes 
• permanently wet couch
• Mold covered Mr. Mosquito (this is Kristy and I's science experiment... he has been squashed on our window for 3 months now. )
• And most recently, I found my most comfortable church shoes in the whole wide world under my bed... moldy.

CURSE YOU HUMIDITY!!!! I will never complain about Arizona dry heat again.

Some pretty cool places

Chengdu

Panda Breeding Center

World's Largest Buddha -

The Giant Buddha of Leshan

Okay, I may or may not have gotten the picture below from google images... but I didn't want to wait in a 5 hour line to get a picture from this angle! But it's SO cool!

Tibetan Street

Cool Market

Swine Flu precautions were taken at our hostel. The government ordered the hostel owner to kill his pig!

Zhu Hai

We visited Debbie and Jeanette's friend, Michael. He was pretty much awesome.

Yangshuo

Biking!

Rice paddies and village

Boat ride down the Li River 

Water Buffalo!

Mud caves and hot springs

This is my only decent picture of us in the mud because of the annoying nude man who decided to jump in all of our pictures! He's pretty covered in this one.