Pics From The East

Tweets From The East

Hubs on a stamp

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In the summer of 2002, Hubs and I were married in a simple ceremony in my hometown. Like all brides, I had a slew of thank you notes to write.

Since I love stamps, I looked around for something a little special to post my hand written letters of thanks. As it turned out, the perfect

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Life Before Instagram

Catan at 12:10am

Catan with friends at 12:10am                       Schäfer hunts the white buffalo

Nowadays, I capture random photos of the city  & life through the Instagram iPhone app.  I post these photos on the Tweets from the East sidebar (my own personal “microblog”) where I sometimes through a coup and post up-to-date information while Sandra is running behind

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Adventures in Butter

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When we first moved to China, the only butter available in our city was a tiny blue cube which yielded less than 1 cup of creamy, dairy goodness.

It seemed like overnight, butter in Yichang had risen in price to 11.50RMB per 125gram ($1.60 per stick).

Suddenly, baking was expensive.

Our world was rocked.

It was time for drastic

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Not TMI in Asia

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The Great Milk Tea Taste Off

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One afternoon at Walmart, I noticed several varieties of instant milk teas for sale. Out of curiosity, I grabbed one of each. After all, you never know when you’ll have a sudden urge for milk tea.

Sandra had the idea of having a taste-off. It was a battle between “Original”, “Gold”, and “Hong Kong” flavors.

We put

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Walmart Camel

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Since Walmart isn’t quite as convenient as it once was (it’s now a 10 RMB taxi ride versus a 1 RMB bus ride), we try to cut our trips to once a month.

This usually results in me (Hubs) loading up a small cart (no large carts in China) with a mound of stuff. I tend

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