Funny Sightings

The week of Tet (the Lunar Chinese New Year) everything closes as I shared previously. Mark and I sit at the computer a lot so we like to go to our fitness center daily. Well they closed the fitness center on New Year's Eve, Feb 13th, and reopened 9 days later on Monday Feb 22. I am not sure the reason since all they do is unlock and then relock the doors. The guards in the building still were on duty so why they had to close is still a mystery. During that time Mark and I would walk laps around our building, as did others who use the center. There is a driveway that circles the building. We see many unusual things on these walks but the funniest yet was coming around the corner one evening and seeing these three little boys all dressed alike, around 2 yrs of age, peeing into the bushes. They were tripletts and each had on the same clothes, a bright orange t-shirt, shorts down past their knees and those squeeky sandals, oh and they all three had glasses which were a little big on them. Mini Einsteins's. Mark is always telling me to carry my camera but who carries a camera to do laps, not I. After they finished doing their business they proceeded to squeek back to the front of the building and over to where the cars were parked. They could barely reach the door handles but proceeded to try to open several car doors, not sure why but they sure were a cute distraction. The second funniest had to do with a Rooster. The people here like fresh meats so many have fish tanks where they keep their fresh fish for the week or sometimes they will keep chickens. They have a bamboo type cage for them. Well the guards in our building, there are around 4-5, who sit at the entrance all day and watch life go by and ocassionally walk through the building, have just such a cage with a rooster, except I think this one is more of a pet. They often let him run loose in the driveway and sometimes I will see them pick him up and put him on the motor bike and off they go. Well back to my story, Mark and I were coming home from somewhere and as we got off our friends motor bikes we saw two of the gueard with a paintbrush, brushing someting on the back of this rooster. I am not sure if it was medicine or if they just thought he needed more color added to his already pretty markings, now that I think of it, maybe he is a little to pretty !!