Summer is over... back to reality!!!

With my wife and son back in Beijing, our summer holiday is officially over... well, almost... We have not had any long holiday away from China for close to 2 years. This time I was in Canada for a whole month, and they have been there for almost 7 weeks.

It is certainly good to be back home, to sleep in our own beds, to enjoy the relatively cheaper food, to have the luxury of the assistance of a domestic helper, the excitement of working in a fast growing market...

But we certainly did not miss the pollution, the "making-sense-is-not-a-requirement" services, the smoky restaurants, the hectic driving... and the list can probably go on and on and on...

Well, it is good to back in reality... but also nice to have memory and hope of how things can always be better.

This was taken on top of Sulphur Mountain in the Canadian Rockies. It's really quite breath-taking.

And we met this fearless little fellow on the mountain too...

I know this is comparing apples with oranges. But this is how the sky in Beijing looked liked on the weekend after my return. I took this at the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall when some friends were visiting...