A Whole Lotta Kevin
Time for some pics already? You know us...we're a bit snap happy. And have we been happy in Beijing! Here are pics of Kevin, a monk and a panda for your delectation.
Beijing Zoo is huge! And there are loads of interesting animals here ... unfortunately the life for many of these animals appeared pretty grim. Most of the animals looked depressed or incredibly sleepy--like they were in jail, except for some excitable monkeys who looked a bit high due to the potato chips the Chinese were throwing into their dens. They sometimes even threw the whole bag of chips in. We were really appalled...what if the monkeys suffocate on the bag of chips?!?!?! The pandas were a sleepy bunch and ate a load. I think we can all learn from their lifestyle.
We took a rickshaw around Hou Hai lake in Beijing and chanced upon this Buddhist Monastery. Chinese love their mobile phones and even the monks have them! Here's the proof! Kevin also really liked the monk's boots and likened them to wellies which is useful as it rains a lot here.
Who needs an expensive gym membership when you've got these sidewalk gyms. They're all over the place, on the very busy sidewalks next to the completely traffic congested streets of Beijing, and people actually do use them for exercise. We tried them and they actually work very well and are fun. I think Kevin overstrained his hip on the hip rotater contraption though...
If you've been to Beijing, you've gotta have this pic of Chairman Mao.
We came, we saw and we conquered the Forbidden City. However, in the end, fatigue conquered us and we trudged off to find ourselves a nice snack.
We were intrigued by these seahorse skewers that are sold in Beijing. They also have beetles, offal, and snake for sale but these seahorses and scorpions were just so attractive we just had to share them with you.
Beijing Zoo is huge! And there are loads of interesting animals here ... unfortunately the life for many of these animals appeared pretty grim. Most of the animals looked depressed or incredibly sleepy--like they were in jail, except for some excitable monkeys who looked a bit high due to the potato chips the Chinese were throwing into their dens. They sometimes even threw the whole bag of chips in. We were really appalled...what if the monkeys suffocate on the bag of chips?!?!?! The pandas were a sleepy bunch and ate a load. I think we can all learn from their lifestyle.
We took a rickshaw around Hou Hai lake in Beijing and chanced upon this Buddhist Monastery. Chinese love their mobile phones and even the monks have them! Here's the proof! Kevin also really liked the monk's boots and likened them to wellies which is useful as it rains a lot here.
Who needs an expensive gym membership when you've got these sidewalk gyms. They're all over the place, on the very busy sidewalks next to the completely traffic congested streets of Beijing, and people actually do use them for exercise. We tried them and they actually work very well and are fun. I think Kevin overstrained his hip on the hip rotater contraption though...
If you've been to Beijing, you've gotta have this pic of Chairman Mao.
We came, we saw and we conquered the Forbidden City. However, in the end, fatigue conquered us and we trudged off to find ourselves a nice snack.
We were intrigued by these seahorse skewers that are sold in Beijing. They also have beetles, offal, and snake for sale but these seahorses and scorpions were just so attractive we just had to share them with you.
posted by Karen at 10/24/2006 11:59:00 AM
5 Comments:
Why is Kevin's head cocked to the same angle in all the photos?
hi
I love the picture of the cool monk.He has real comfy shoes.
The panda picture vey well composed, she sure is eating a lot of bamboo.
resident ORT
Karen,
Hope you can reduce the weight of your backpack by5 kilos. It looks humongous, i am worried it might hurt your back in the long run.we have weak-back DNAs
resident ORT
Hey Kev, those fried seahorse and scorpion swekers look mighty scrummy. Good to see you're able to work those off at the roadside gym.
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