China beckons...

I'm heading to China next Saturday (27 Aug) for 10 days. My Dad is going there on a geological research trip and I offered to carry his luggage - and he agreed. Hooray! I've wanted to go to China for a few years now and especially would like to be there for the 2008 Olympics - yet it's happening now. We're going to Heilongjiang which is the northern-most Chinese province, the capital of which is Harbin (the "Ice City") where they have the massive ice sculptures in January that sometimes make it onto our news. Our destination is just north of Mudanjiang - a city of 1/2 a million people.

It's going to be fun!