Harbin

While Mike was away at a basketball tournament, I headed with three friends to Siberia to visit the city of Harbin, which is famous for its ice and snow festival and Siberian tiger park. Even though I do not like the idea of caged animals, I did love the tiger park--simply because these cats were so beautiful. Some people on our tour paid to send a live chicken on into the tiger park and...well it did not end so well for the chicken. This is a picture of the tiger anticipating that meal:

And here is the magical land of Harbin where the buildings are all made of ice: