Today Chile had a very large earthquake (magnitude 8.8). I have attached a pic of the USGS earthquake website taken at about 2 this afternoon. Many of the aftershocks shown in this image were about magnitude 5 or 6. About the time the tsunami from this quake reached Hawaii, my sister Tina arrived for a visit from Chicago - no connection between the events :*) . Katie and Tina hit it off rather well, and Katie loved playing with Aunt Tina's iPhone. Katie had a bit of a fever this morning, probably because she had four immunization shots on Friday, but she got better.
Ironically, on the day of the big Chile earthquake I'm about to blog about January 14, and it was that morning of that we found out about the big Haiti earthquake on the jumbo TV screen in People's Square (look back on that date's entry). On January 14, our family headed over to a large park on the northern end of Guiyang known as Qianling Park. The route we took to the park was a bit rough because it passed through construction areas. The park has a lot of things to see and we did not even get to see all of it. It has a "friendly" population of macaque monkeys that we enjoyed watching, from a safe distance. The area was fairly green , even in January, reminding us a bit of the Pacific Northwest at that time of the year.
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