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Nanjing’s Lantern Festival and Xuanwu Lake

Every night (and early morning), fireworks have been exploding above the city skyline all around our hotel in celebration of the Lantern Festival. Throngs of people have been crowding the streets throughout the day and night wearing colourful, flashing lights, often carrying lit lanterns. Here’s a few pics of the squares and alleyways of the […]

Evening fun

Han Kun has quickly shown us that he loves to laugh and play, much to everyone’s delight–especially his big sister. We caught a few moments on tape tonight, which you can view here (click on each video for a larger view).

Shanghai & Zhouzhuang

As promised, here’s a video of our first few days in China. Due to the size of the file, it’s taken me a few tries over the past couple days to upload it over our slow hotel internet connection. Enjoy!

He’s Here!

Today is one of those momentous days when you think, is it really today? Like a graduation or a wedding, this one day we looked forward to for days and weeks and months, waiting and imagining and planning. And it’s today. This moment . . . we meet Han Kun. After I spent much of […]

Zhouzhuang

Click here for a slideshow of the day’s photos, or here to see all our photos on flickr from the trip so far. Another video will be posted soon.