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Postcard: Ocean City, Maryland

Beaches are best in the morning, when people are still passed out from adventures the night before. When it isn't hot and most of the visitors are still fast asleep in their overpriced hotel beds. Thank you, kind life guard, who came after me after a rip tide took me for a ride. I made it back fine on my own, with a higher salt content.

Willy at 12 weeks, up at the creek

We went to Rausch Creek and took Willy for some four wheeling. We didn't do much wheeling, this was more a socialize Willy to four wheeling day. He loved it. I think Dave and I ran his little legs off! He ran through grass taller than he is. Ate as much grass and weeds as he could get in his mouth. He tried to take home every stick and root he could find. He veraciously dug through rocks the size of golf balls, and chased the ones that fell down hills.

Joyously munching grass and rolling around on his back during a break for lunch.


This weed eater is a happy dog.


Willy found this massive root. He was bent on taking it home. He got very upset when I told him it was time to leave the root. Maybe he wanted to take it to Mary?


My furry, sleepy passenger and his blanket, surrounded by his toys.


The consensus, he'll make a good (but teeny) jeep dog.

Willy....giving you the eye

Yesterday marked 11 weeks for our little puppy. We have named him Willy. He is doing well after having a hernia repaired on Friday and getting "altered". Poor guy. Willy's favorite pastimes include bark chewing and chewing in general.

Our newest edition

This is our new puppy. He has no name. Please help. He was seven weeks old on Saturday.



David and the no name puppy.

What a Great Wall

Back in Hong Kong! After an interesting time at a hotel in very rural Shenzen, we decided to come back to Hong Kong sooner than expected. Apparently, tourists were being kidnapped and in some cases killed. Leaving was good for a couple of reasons other than the previous mention, first being that we didn't see much of HK before, but also because we have internet access!! Whooo!! Some more updates can trickle in. Many stories about tea, shopping, getting lost, highway rings, using my Mandarin phrase book (alot), being "tall", having a pretty nose, Elaine, the word salacious and it's overuse, Dave eating with chop sticks, temples, gardens, traffic, speeding, a lot of taxis, randomly broken up roads, ascending to heaven, Chinese people giggling at my Englanese, laughing at printed Chingrish, hair school, lots of back pain, crazy Italians, and much more. For now, on to what you really want to know about. The Great Wall.


And it was huge. The Wall, just as imagined, rolls on the edge of the hills from as far as you can see. Dave and I shot gobs of photos. It was such a nice day. We nearly died on the way there when our driver was speeding (typical in both Shanghai and Beijing) and hit a patch of freshly torn up pavement and we skidded into on coming traffic (namely a bus) and close enough to the edge of the cliff. Our driver let out a near perfect sounding "Sorry!" Followed by nervous laughter. Hilarious.

As we were leaving the Wall, this donkey ran out into the road and stopped just over in our lane. Our driver, speeding again, swerved to avoid hitting the animal. I grabbed this shot out of the heavily tinted window.

Blogger Blocked!

We are in mainland China, in Shanghai and I believe blogspot urls are blocked. This means no photos on the blog and I cannot read comments or check to make sure things are posting correctly. Booooo! The China government is successful and good for its people.