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Happy Thanksgiving

We celebrated with friends last week......






But now we are in Phuket, counting our blessing beachside. Happy Thanksgiving.


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Our HK Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving last weekend with friends in Hong Kong.  Everyone brought a dish and we ate and drank and had a really good time celebrating with other Americans as well as friends from all over the world. We are thankful for our HK friends.

Carson shares her Buzz Lightyear toy with Hoyer.

Hoyer learns a Thanksgiving tradition early! American Football!

Kyle chats with friends before the feast!

Hoyer tries to keep up with the big kids!

Hoyer and Kyle line up for delicious food.

 

Under the tent at the Marina Club enjoying home cooked food with 100 plus friends.

Hoyer at the Park

 Hoyer and the little dog at the park

 Hoyer, Ella and Pedro

 Hoyer loves dogs!

We're on The List.

Somehow I got myself a pretty amazing list.(Thanks JP) I get invited to several parties each week, launch parties, secret parties-you name it I get invited, which means I take along Kyle!  This week we hit up the Mini Cooper Launch Party on Thursday night. We had a blast watching celebrities (even though we have no clue who they are), there is always paparazzi and always free flowing champagne and appetizers. It was a blast, but still nothing compared to the Mercedes launch we went to a few months back- This week I have 2 on Friday night. It is insane, but I do love the champagne and a red carpet...and of course gift bags! 

Yeah for friends in high places!

 I did not want to look like a big dork with a camera.... Fancy people, hip and cool-what are we doing here again????

It may be 80 degrees, but it feels like Christmas in Hong Kong.

Hoyer stands next to our little tree. We will adorn it with the traditional strings of popcorn and cranberries this year.

BIG NEWS.

I started a small business!!!
Designing and creating a line of children's clothes. The clothes will be made in Hong Kong. I started a blog about the venture. Check it out! I am so excited.

http://peapiechildrensclothes.blogspot.com/


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Adventures in China

 The Birds Nest 

Site of the Beijing Olympics 2008

Summer Palace, Beijing, The Marble Boat

 

Theatre at the Summer Palace

The Covered Walkway at the Summer Palace

The Covered Walkway was built in 1750 for Emperor Qianlong's mother to enjoy the rain and snow scene on the Kunming Lake. Fully painted and decorated with colorful designs and pictures, this walkway winds its way along the north shore of Kunming Lake like a colorful ribbon linking the architectures and the natural landscape.

The Covered Walkway stretches 728 metres long from the Gate of Inviting the Moon to the Shizhang Pavilion, which is in the shape of a bat, a homonymous word in Chinese with "happiness". This painted walkway marvelously inter-weaves the palatial buildings dotting Longevity Hill and the adjacent Kunming Lake, architecturally speaking, it does separate the bill from the lake, but one may just feel a subtle transition, not a clear-cut separation.

This 273 section walkway is the longest of its kind in the world, with over 14,000 different pictures painted on the beams and crossbeams. Among them are 584 landscape paintings and over 360 figure paintings, the remaining are flower-and-bird paintings. The landscape, flower-and-bird paintings are copied from the scenery of West Lake in Hangzhou by master painters who were with Emperor Qianlong on his six tours to the South of the Yangtze River.

The figure paintings, on the other hand, derived their themes from many household known Chinese ancient legends, fairy tales, folk stories and classic novels like "Strange Tales of Liaozhai", "Pilgrimage to the West", "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and so on.

Also unique to this winding walkway are the four pavilions. They not only represent the four seasons of the year but also join the four different uneven grounds. Visitors, while strolling along the Covered Walkway, won't feel the ground is uneven or the twists and turns because the views nearby have diverged their attention. 

(Source: http://www.sinohotelguide.com/travel/aboutbeijing/summer-palace/walkway.php)

Xian City Wall and the Big Wild Goose Pagoda

 

Originally built in 652 during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), it functioned to collect Buddhist materials that were taken from India by the hierarch Xuanzang

 

 Hoyer dances on the city wall. 

Kyle took us for a ride on the Ancient City Wall of Xian.

Terra Cotta Warriors Xian, China

Altogether over 7,000 pottery soldiers, horses, chariots, and even weapons have been unearthed from these pits. Most of them have been restored to their former grandeur.

The Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses is a sensational archeological find of all times.

The terracotta warriors were created by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang di pronounced - Chin Shi Huang di who conquered and united China from a collection of warring states to become its First Emperor. He built the Great Wall and amassed great works of art. 70,000 workers built his tomb and the

over 8000 fantastic life-size clay warriors which protected his tomb. The Famous Terracotta Army - is now referred to as the eighth wonder of the ancient world.

Even the soles of the shoes were accurate and detailed.

This is the only warrior who was found in one piece. You can still see the color on his back.