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Hey hey! We finally made it to HArbin I have been looking forward to this place all year.The 24 hour airport run makes it misrable to get too but here we are. Arriving at 7:00pm we only had time for a quick run down the main shopping drag that led from our hotel to the river ending at the flood memorial.There was what I thought the Great Wall of China sliding board of ice and we did this with the latest saftey precaution brake system China has to offer (a guy at the end sticks his foot out to stop your 30 mph slide!)Stopping off at a Russian Resturant for dinner we paid only 20 dollars for three of us to eat including drinks.
Up and early the next morning we loaded up with a great buffet breakfast as we were going to be trucking all day as we had one day to see all of the high spots. Leading us off our tour guide/translator heading off in the direction of some ice swimming some older Chinese go swimming everyday in the ice choked river.There where these chairs on blades there and Joy and I skooted our butts around the oval in what looked like a Chinese firedrill. We wanted to do some horse back riding on the ice butt Hank decided we could do that later, he seemed to be protecting us against something as he was arguing with the horemen??
Now it's tiger time we jump back into the car and make our way over to the tiger park.Knowing that this will probaly be politcally incorrect zoo we enter at our own risk.So Joy is talking to me out in the parking lot and over her shoulder I notice a big monitor showing a little white goat being chased by six tigers,um Joy is not going to like this place.SO we enter our all terrain bus or sometimes known as a worn out city bus with crude bars welded over the windows.ANd we tour around these open area tigers cages, now they were not misrable looking tigers they were all fat and healthy looking and they had a great breeding program. Then can the chicken show...Yep a white truck comes charging across the field throwing chickens out the window onto it's roof.Well a chicken to a tiger is like a potato chip to me so it was a quick end to the chickens and the tigers had lunch.In the summer they use cows and you can see that on another video site.
Okay now we haeded over to Sun Island and the snow scuptures they were huge and very detailed.There hundreds of these sculptures all over the park ranging in size of a lawn tractor up to a housng development.We hiked around the park took some pictures but the wind was howling and our feet grow cold time for dumplings.
I must continue this blog on another page as it grows long.......
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