Woburn Safari Park slideshow

At Woburn Safari Park

Dear Sophia,

These are some of the pictures I took while we were visiting Woburn Safari Park. Even though the weather was not very good, I think we had lots of fun. I did not get any pictures of the monkey trying to steal your hair clip but I did get lots of pictures of the monkeys playing.



I also quite like this shot of you with the penguins..



and climbing in the Tree Tops!



Love
Jason

Sophia and Abigail

Sophia and Tamsin making Easter eggs

Sophia and Tamsin taking pictures

Dear Sophia,

I thought this picture of you and Tamsin taking pictures in the woods over the Easter break was very nice. Please send me some of the picture you take, and I can put those on the blog as well!

Love

Jason

Chinese New Year fireworks

This week has been the chinese new year 'spring festival'.

Everyone has had the week off of work, and EVERYONE goes home to see their families. For many chinese, especially all the construction workers and shop workers, that means leaving the city to return to the countryside where they come from.

A big part of the chinese new year (other than the dancing dragons, which you hopefully got to see in Manchester) is fireworks. All the families go out into the street and launch lots of BIG fireworks.

The fireworks last 4-days and when night comes they get especially loud and often. My apartment in Shanghai is only on the 5th-floor, so I didn't get a very good view of the fireworks, but I got to hear all the noise and see all the coloured lights reflecting on all the surrounding buildings. It was amazing and like nothing I have ever seen or heard before. And it went on, and on, and on, and on....

Love

Jason

Sophia in the snow