Bikes and Tug of War

We have been traveling and traveling and traveling.  But we are back now and have settled back into normal life.  A few weeks after we returned to China we ate at Pizza Hut one Saturday afternoon.  A guy approached us and using the translator on his phone asked us if he could take pictures of the girls for his company who did modeling for kids clothing manufacturers.  We were a little leery, but pursued it to see if it was legitimate.  It was and so Kenz and Kaylie have done some modeling off and on for the last few months.  Huzhou is famous for making kids clothes.  Most of the countries children clothes are made here.  Anyway, finally a couple weeks ago the girls saved up enough money to buy themselves some new bikes.  The weather has been great for the last week so we have been doing a LOT of riding! 

The girls got to babysit one of the translators tiny dog's for the weekend, they LOVED it! I'm just glad the puppy survived their 'taking care of' it.

Some pictures of the girls modeling

Last night we went to Kyle's work to have supper with him, the company serves three meals a day in the cafeteria.  After super they were having a tug of war contest between some of the different divisions.  There were seven different teams.  Kyle's team came in second.  Unfortunately I didn't have my camera, I just had his so the pictures aren't great, but it was a lot of fun!

 Madi making new friends

 The girls with Sabrina, who is one of the translators

 Sany.  The manufacturing building is a 1/2 mile long

 Cafeteria

 Dorms, there is another set of dorms a few miles away

Tug of war!  Unfortunately by the time Kyle's team was up it was dark and really hard to get any decent pictures.

Here is a short video of one of the teams. They are all chanting Jy-Yo! Jy-Yo! Jy-Yo! (this is spelled like it sounds) and it means come on! come on! come on!  It was SO loud!  :)  Shirley (a translator) told me that is what they all yell at all sporting events.