Alright, so after a few weeks of chilling out in Kunming Jen's parents arrived in Kunming for a two week visit. Without any further ado here are some photos from the last few days...
Jen showing her excited look at the airport waiting for her parents...
Jim, Jen and Suzanne at the airport...
Since we have been in China, we have bought alot of DVDs because they're so cheap (5-10RMB which works out to about $0.90-$1.60CDN) and then today we ran across this chart in The Economist which we thought was interesting. Even though DVDs cost about $1 here, and about $14 in the USA, on average it takes a person in either country about the same amount of time at work (~4o minutes) to earn enough to buy one! Those poor Mexicans have it rough though!!
While out shopping one day, Jim got asked to play an impromptu game of badminton on the street with the guy's bike serving as the net.
On a walk through a park, Jen buys a tasty radish-like treat from a vendor...mmmm!
Jen, Jim and Suzanne walking along a path dug into a cliff in a local temple.
There isn't a lot of green space in the city, and so wedding photos abound in any park. There were more brides around but I could only manage to get 4 into a single photo. If I had a wide angle lens I am sure I could have gotten another few.
Jen and Jim in a sea of tourists. Jim and Suzanne are starting to get used to being stared at, pointed at and talked about everywhere they go. It didn't take long for them to learn the chinese words "waiguoren" and "laowai" which mean foreigner. This is what most people say as they point us out to their friends. Why exactly we're worthy of being pointed out, we're still not quite sure...
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