Today we ate breakfast as usual and then the group went to a tea tasting place. It was a tourist place but very fun and we did buy some tea. Yunnan is famous for very good tea, not that I am a qualified tea connoisseur but the teas was indeed good. After that we went for another walk in the park. This time Mary, Karah & MeiLi went with me and another family also accompanied us. This evening we received MeiLi's Chinese passport (which is why we were waiting here in Kunming) so tomorrow we fly out to Guangzhou. We will be paying for Internet service in Guangzhou and since it is quite expensive my blog posts may be short. Personally, I do not believe a hotel to be proper unless it has free Internet service :-) One thing about Kunming, the spoken English here is not really very good and not everyone speaks Mandarin either. So communication in the hotel was a lot harder than in Beijing. For example, it took us awhile tonight to get someone who could understand that we wanted to order one meal and split it between the girls. It was spaghetti and boy can MeiLi slurp noodles! They have a play area in the restaurant so we were ale to get some good pics of the girls playing. 
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I see you're becoming famous - Even my Aunt Pearl in Singapore is browsing your blog and posting ! ;-)
It's great to see MeiLi so happy and playing with her new sister.
Just to let you know what's going on this end of the world: Yesterday we went to the Reno air races and since it was 9/11, during the opening ceremonies we observed a moment of silence for those killed in the terrorist attacks.
If you have not being watching the news, there is a *huge* hurricane (Ike) barelling towards Texas - More than a million people have been ordered to evacuate and they suspect it will cause major damage - It will also hit Galveston where we both visted courtesy of HP a few years ago.
Enough of the bad news - enjoy your trip/stay in Guangzhou - We'll still read your blog posts however short!
Cheers!
Mike
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