Circus World Museum

Some pictures from Circus World Museum, near the Wisconsin Dells.

Hong Kong pictures

Here are some shots from Hong Kong - etaing lunch with our Hong Kong Abbott team, and a picture of the mascots at Olympic park. Got to attend church at an English-speaking branch in Hong Kong, which was an uplifting time.

Shanghai

I'm in Shanghai now, made it successfully on the trip and am a bit jet-lagged but otherwise OK. Trying to get around, but don't know a word of Chinese, which is interesting (I think I need George here- :))

A funny thing is that my travelling companion's name is Michal (pronounced Mee-How), he's our marketing researcher from Poland. His name apparently means "hello" in Chinese, so he's found it increasingly confusing to use his name here "Mee-how, I'm Mee-how" so we had reservations last night, and he used "Mike".

We took the Mag lev train from Pudong airport to Longyang road station. It was super fast - 430 km/hr. The weirdest part was passing another train going the opposite direction at that speed-- it seemed to take just a fraction of a second.

A lot of American restaurants here-- maybe because we are staying downtown at a touristy area. McDonald's and Burger King are both within walking distance, and we stopped at ColdStone Creamery for ice cream last night.

Museum of Science and Industry

Had a good time with today's activities - did the Museum of Science and Industry, American Girl Store, and John Hancock building observatory. We did all the travel by train and bus, which worked out pretty well and saved some gas.

Lake County Children's museum

Yes, cleaning out the camera -- here's a picture of the kids on a simulated roller coaster at the children's museum.

Chicago Botanical Garden

Here are a couple of shots of the kids at the Chicago Botanical Garden. Courtney liked the flowers; Dan liked getting wet!

Hal playing tennis

Hal is enjoying playing some tennis this summer. Here he is playing in the court at the park behind our house.