Travelog for: Kirin

On 23rd August this year, it's ghost festival, that the gate of ghost world will open.

Therefore, some booth were set for people to worship,
and feast were set for those hungry ghosts. 
Some masters who who dressed in black were there to lead the prayer.

From the wall paintings, it shows some Chinese gods.
Paper props were made for the burning ceremony too.
People believed that after burning, the ghost will receive the things. 

Other than booth for parying, booth for feast,
there's also a booth of chinese opera. 

The costumes seems quite heavy and complicated,
I have never seen all these before. 

Though I don't know the language,
it's still good to enjoy the show~ 

I see monsters!!! 
These monsters are models of the brand... 
Glad that they stand still and couldn't move...
Well, I think I look much handsome and stylish among them! 

Next to the monsters, there stood a hi-fi elephant.
It's much nicer and invited us to have a sit on its long nose~ 

Elephants are my good friend!
Maybe I can go to Africa to visit my good friends one day! 

I attended an exhibition "Legendary Mongolia" at Cultural Centre.
There's a big yurt, the home of Mongolian,
as they are nomads, they used this kind of portable house,
which is felt-covered, with wood lattice-framed dwelling structure.

There's also a mongolian sheep! 
King Tut and I hurried on to it to have a ride! 

Inside the yurt,
some mongolian clothes were displayed,
the brown one is a water bottle~
Do I look nice with the pink shoes on? 

My last trip here is to visit Art Museum,
yoou can see all of us playing around a funny sculputre,
it's inspired by the ancient chinese words,
actually they look like drawings and shapes more than a typical word! 
For the word I am sitting on, I guess it's the word of "horse",
In chinese, it is how the word looks: 馬 (pronounce as "ma")
but... who knows~~ 

We even take a photo together in front of the Space Museum~ 
Vi (the chubby cat) is holding the camera for us~

Hello mummy!
I`m in Russia! Have not seen anything interesting yet, but there are many nice guys here, so I think soon we`ll have much fun together!

Hello dear mummy!
wihout any news from me you could think rhat I`m sittng at home and doing nothing.
But I`m an active giraffe! Firt place I visited  was Cathedral of Christ the Saviour:

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The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour or Khram Khrista Spasitelya is a Church in Moscow, Russia, on the bank of the Moskva River, a few blocks west of the Kremlin. With an overall height of 103 metres (338 ft), it is the tallest Orthodox church in the world.

The bridge  near cathedral is "must seen" as well. You can see very nice view f Moscow-river from that bridge. People who just got married come to this bridge to put padlock on it  - it symbolizes that their love will be strong as this lock is.

Hello everyone!
On the way to Maria`s Spanish courses we took some pictures.
First is Pashkov House:

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The Pashkov House is one of the most renowned Classicist buildings in Moscow, currently owned by the Russian State Library. It is believed to be built by Vasili Bazhenov and is located at 3/5 Vozdvizhenka Street, building 1. The Pashkov House was erected in 1784—1786 by Pyotr Pashkov, retired Captain Lieutenant of the Guards Semenovsky Regiment and son of the batman of Peter the Great.

I would like to live in such house myself!
Across the street Kremlin is situated. We have entered it for a minute to have a look at guard of honour.

Hello mummy!
Days when Maria is at the work are very boring. Luckily I have new friends - golden fishes. They are funny

Hello everyone!
Yesterday the weather was grey and rainy, but my new friend Kanata and I had a pleasant walk.
We again saw Kremlin, went through the brige which leads to Kievskiy railway station. And saw the monument "Abduction of Europe" - very strange monument I should say.

Hello mummy!
Today we were inside the Kremlin (in the area where president Medvedev is living. He was not at home - only that`s the reason why we have not met him )

Hello mummy!
We spent several days in one wonderful city!
And as an addition for our journey we had a 11-hour stop in Berlin - the capital of Germany!
Berlin is soooo nice! You can see it at the photo!

But ...guess where are we going next?

Hello dear mummy!
I`m in Paris - the city of all love hearts!
The first day was mine and I was lucky because weather was nice, sunny and warm!
We were near Louvre, then went to the Arch de Triumph! And walked through Paris streets.
It was so great!

Hello mummy!
I visited the museum of Vera Mukhina. She was the architector of famous Russian sculpture Worker and Kolkhoz Woman

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Worker and Kolkhoz Woman  is a 24.5 meter (78 feet) high sculpture made from stainless steel by Vera Mukhina for the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, and subsequently moved to Moscow. The sculpture is an example of the socialist realistic style, as well as Art Deco style. The worker holds aloft a hammer and the kolkhoz woman a sickle to form the hammer and sickle symbol.

The museum is very interesting and I enjoyed old Russian photos and placards as well.

Hello mummy!
Winter is in Russia! WE spent week-end at the countryside and had fun
I hope you like my snow photos!
Hugs,
Kirin!