Beijing Olympics 2008

This is a thank you card I received from China a while ago. Thank you so much for this cute card, Xiaoerduojiang! :)



I absolutely adore the mascots for the Beijing Olympics 2008. Sooo cute! ^_^ ...unlike the ones for London 2012. I've written about those before so I'm not going to rant more here... I'm just saying that I still really, REALLY don't like them, they are horrible and ugly. :(



Pretty, pretty Chinese stamps! The one on the left is from a set of 4 stamps issued in 1995, depicting Hong Kong. The stamp next to it was issued in 2004 to commemorate the Year of the Rooster. I'm not sure of the year of issue of the last stamp as it looks like there have been several different issues of Olympics stamps in China over different years.

Biloxi, Mississippi, USA

Another lighthouse postcard! This one came as a thank you card from a woman in the USA I sent an official to recently. Such a cool card, thank you very much, Mimi!



There was some very helpful info on the back of the card:

Of all the lighthouses that once stood in Mississippi, Biloxi Lighthouse is the only one still standing. Named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, the white, colonical tower was built in 1848, making it one of the first cast-iron lighthouses in the South.



The "stamp" on the right is not actually a real stamp - it's printed straight on the postcard. Very nice, though! The stamp in the middle was issued earlier this year and shows Katharine Hepburn (I remember her from a translation assignment I had to do early on in uni :D). I'm not sure about the polar bear stamp, except that it's a definitive stamp.