Home Sweet Home. Our apartment is about 500 square feet.  I (Lyle) am standing in a porch overlooking the busy street. There's a tv to the right (not pictured).  As we go out the living room door, there's a short hall to the right that goes out to the 65 steps that take us down from the fifth floor. The bathroom is off the hall. Straight ahead you can see the washing machine in the kitchen. Before the kitchen, there is a shower and sink on the right. The other half of the apartment (to the left) contains bedrooms. One is 10 by almost 14 with a desk and two wardrobes for clothes. Aaron and Alyssa's room is 10 by 9. It has two beds, a hutch, and the refrigerator. Our new home in Brookings is about 3,500 square feet. We're managing quite well with 500. Maybe we should rent our home out to six other families! (photo by Lyle)
 
 

A Busy Street. This picture shows the view looking east out of our patio window on the busy street below. Aaron and Alyssa are standing on the bridge over the road. To their right is a woman with a cup for handouts, a woman sitting down playing a stringed instrument, and a woman selling pineapples. Vendors selling other items are to the left. Sometimes there is a traffic jam of people on the bridge. Lyle crosses the bridge and walks about 5 minutes to the west to the Yunnan Normal campus. The gate to our apartment is directly below and to the right . The bridge curves off to the right to a smaller but bustling street. Under the bridge, one of the numerous bicycle repairmen around Kunming sets up his shop every day.  You can see the two lanes of traffic each way and the bike lane on the outside. There is activity on the road 24 hours a day. We've seen all kinds of things being hauled on bicycle carts, including pool tables. By midnight, the noise has lessened, but there's still enough that Gwen and I use an earplug in the "up" ear, while the "down" ear snuggles into the pillow. (photo by Lyle)