Sorry, been MIA

We've been busy... sorry. Since we've posted, we've made a trip to a Great Wall, Zach has gone to Korea, we've bought/sold Olympics tickets and welcomed another guest, Tim, from Shanghai. Cliff and Zach made the trip out to Jinshanling and hiked to Simatai, which was about a 4 hours hike. Zach has been on a pre-Beijing 'training regimen' of coffee and McDonalds in the states...needless to say, he was not crushing the wall, but he did well enough.


Cliff has been working on his picture composition and camera settings--he's doing pretty well, eh?



He also took some pictures of the countryside... looks like Wisconsin...


Afterwards we went to one of our favorite places...DinTaiFung. This restaurant was named one of the "Ten Best" in the world by the New York Times twenty-some years ago... henceforth, they have clung to this title, and we've bought into it. Their most famous dish is their "xiaolongbao"--these little soup dumplings have a thin, delicate skin, 20 odd folds on on top and are filled with a pork-chive filling. What makes these special, is the soup that the folks at DTF magically put inside...it comes of the kitchen the temperature of the sun, but it is sooo, sooo, good.