
Category: China


Saved from the cold in Harbin
We are on the Chinese Siberian Russian border in Harbin for the annual Ice and Snow Festival. It is a subzero winter wonderland with ice sculptures greeting you as you exit the airport to ice slides outside the hotel. In our family there is nothing in our life experience or DNA to cope with this level of cold. We live in Hawaii- so there’s no real practice there. We have tried our best to buy every warm article of clothing and body warmer we can find. I counted 6 layers on my body yesterday. Lat night we visited Zhaolin Park[…]
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We’re freezing in China!
It’s 37/18 F (3/-8 C) in Beijing and tomorrow we head to Harbin where it will be 7/-20 F (-14/-29 C)!
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The Vu’s and the Great Wall of China
Got to cross off a bucket list item today.
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