Still Too Cute

Mao The Tank Engine

We recently visited the Beijing Train Museum. Luke is big fan of Thomas and trains in general. If you are ever in Beijing, save your 20 RMB ($2.50 USD). Don't go. We were the only visitors when we went to the warehouse full of trains. Unless you are a real train afficianado, they all look pretty much the same. They did have Mao's personal train engine and Zhou Enlai's personal sleeper car, though. As an added bonus, at the gift counter, they sold the same cheap toy trains they sell at the markets at a 300% markup.



Luke plays in a sleeper car

New Dinosaurs Discovered

Luke has identified dinosaurs that were misnamed among his various dinosaur books.

Kissasaurus



Clubasaurus



NOT PICTURED: Brownasaurus - this crafty dinosaur changes its appearance from page to page, but can easily be identified by its skin pigmentation

Budding Paleontologist

Luke knows the names of dinosaurs I had never heard of as a child. Here he arranges the troops for one of many Dinosaur Dioramas in our house.

Claire is too Cute

'Nuff said.

The Beijing Zoo

We recently went to the zoo. This was an experience. Many exhibits were empty, including my personal fave, the otter. But I got a good pic of blatant rule breaking. Here is a common sign in front of almost all the animal exhibits:



Simple, right? Don't jump over the guard rail and don't feed the animals.



Here a young girl has jumped the rail and feeding the animals directly under the sign that forbids it! Behind her, Gramps films her and her brother in the act. Believe me, I could have taken many photos that look just like this, only the kids are different.



But really, most of the time we were there, I felt like we were the animals on exhibit. Check out the bystanders behind me.