I returned from Hanoi friday, buy the skin of my teeth. We arrived to the airport 25 minutes before our flight departed, but made it. Good thing too. Julie's dad had a few meeting re-shuffled and was able to come down to visit us on Saturday, en route to Jakarta. We spent the day with a
bunch of activities. Luckily the day before an expat friend lent us his SUV (don't judge me treehugger friends). Happily our fourth set of wheels since we've been here. We used it to go up to the Golden Temple in the morning, then some good Uygur
noodles for lunch, off to the countryside for in the afternoon, and finally to the Dai restaurant for some exotic food for dinner (fried grubs and bees). The kids chowed them, even after we told them what they were eating. Julie's dad was off Sunday morning at 6am; we had a great day.
On the true father's day, Sunday, we went up to Shi Lin or the Stone Forest with Luke and Elliott. This is the much anticipated tourist attraction of most Kunming visitors and most of our friends have promised that it would be a bit of a let-down. We went and loved it. It is a geological wonder. Giant stone pinnacles jutting out of the countryside. It had it's fair share of Chinese tourist junk, but the interior of the park was very isolated from the gift shops and annoying people selling who knows what. You could certainly get lost in the park. It had it's share of steep drops for the kids so we had to watch out for them and it was slick and rainy most of the time. Really much cooler than the reputation it had from my friends and lonely planet. It was a really great father's day. Even better, the kids did really well.
I returned from Hanoi friday, buy the skin of my teeth. We arrived to the airport 25 minutes before our flight departed, but made it. Good thing too. Julie's dad had a few meeting re-shuffled and was able to come down to visit us on Saturday, en route to Jakarta. We spent the day with a 
noodles for lunch, off to the countryside for in the afternoon, and finally to the Dai restaurant for some exotic food for dinner (fried grubs and bees). The kids chowed them, even after we told them what they were eating. Julie's dad was off Sunday morning at 6am; we had a great day.
On the true father's day, Sunday, we went up to Shi Lin or the Stone Forest with Luke and Elliott. This is the much anticipated tourist attraction of most Kunming visitors and most of our friends have promised that it would be a bit of a let-down. We went and loved it. It is a geological wonder. Giant stone pinnacles jutting out of the countryside. It had it's fair share of Chinese tourist junk, but the interior of the park was very isolated from the gift shops and annoying people selling who knows what. You could certainly get lost in the park. It had it's share of steep drops for the kids so we had to watch out for them and it was slick and rainy most of the time. Really much cooler than the reputation it had from my friends and lonely planet. It was a really great father's day. Even better, the kids did really well.
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