These are the gentleman that own the birds. They were thoroughly intrigued by Richard, Adah, and me-as is the rest of China. They chattered and chattered at us but we had no idea what they were saying. We definitley make a big spectacle here when we go out. At any given time we have numerous people staring at us and sometimes following us. It's rather unusual.

A couple of days ago we went to The Nanjing Silk Brocade Factory. Huge looms ran by two people are used to make elaborate silk material. The person on the top of the loom directs the person at the bottom as to what color to use. It's pretty cool. In one of the pictures you can see the pattern reflected by the mirror on the gentlemans lap. They make about 5-6 cenitmetes in 8 hours of work. A garment for the emperor would have taken about 3-5 years.