Harbin

From 30 plus in Thailand, we spent 2 days back in Beijing and then went to Harbin for their Winter Festival...a usual -30 degrees but this year was warm and they were having trouble because it was too warm --about -10. Some of the Ice sculptures were melting...I didn't get pictures of their ice city because my camera was full...Merle will send some pictures that she has and I will include them in another blog....they were spectacular......the snow sculpture of Niagara Falls was big....... as you see...the picture of me leaning was of a young lady with me in between some rather large breasts.... and Merle is in front of a snow sculpture of the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City....

The kids on the ice were using bicycle wheels with a skate blade to steer. This was a real interesting thing to see....even some people were pushing the biskates...new....then we went to a restaurant and it was a tropical restaurant....inn the frigid north.....and the other one is of the entrance to the place....again a massive structure to showcase their ice sculptures...

The BonHomme carnival was at an intersection as you can see it was huge. The truck and bus was at the Siberian Tiger area....a fenced arena...the caged truck was throwing out live turkeys for the tigers to eat...and it didn't take them long either.....then they brought in a live calf to feed them...supposedly to teach them to still keep some of their hunting skills....but they usually don't hunt in packs....and the calf was taken away once it was dead perhaps so that they would not fight over who got the carcass......l little gruesome and there were some kids in the busses ...don't know how they deal with that.....

The clock in Harbin here was a good place where one of my students Aivi met us and we spent abot 20 minutes with her.....interesting to see a student in her locale here...she was wanting to practise her English....not a lot of chances for her.....my Husky hat got a lot of looks even without the English guy underneath it....had a chance to talk to a couple of little children in English too...

Sure wish I had the city of ice pictures for this but not to be ...will post this and may add some later...

Later