Mr. Tiki's writeup

In case you're tired of hearing tiki rattle on about our trip, here is Mr. Tiki's writeup of our journey across Asia. (With our new friend, Comrade Spongebob!) It was written for a Star Wars forum, but includes a bunch of groovy highlights and silly pictures.

Stuff and nonsense, Beijing style

Our very first day in Beijing began badly, as we stumbled off a horrible "sleeping bus" from Mongolia at 3 am to find our hostel would not let us check in to take a nap, nor even take a shower.

Things soon improved as tiki discovered a plushie shop just two blocks down the road.

( new friends )

Really big show

Some chatter on our anime list this morning reminded us of this image:



As you must know if you've been anywhere near China recently, Beijing is the site for the 2008 Olympics. Of course a big part of every Olympic game in modern times is relentless marketing, so everywhere you turn in Beijing there is a kiosk selling Olympic crap, and the little anime-style mascots are pretty much unescapable. We're posing next to an advertising display, but you can see that the larger plushies available for sale in the window behind are really not much smaller. We spotted them everywhere, including at the airport on our way to Shanghai. We wondered if you picked one up at an airport kiosk prior to your flight, how you would go about transporting them to your destination? Do you need to buy them a ticket?

Goes up to 11

aelfsciene made a special guest appearance at Casa de Tikistitch this evening. Much phad thai was slurped, giggles emitted, and she shared this amazing video: