One of the interesting things we experienced on our trip was when Jie Jie decided she 'needed' a family of yaks to take home. In Shangri-La, yaks were the predominant farming animal, and indeed frequent supplier on menus - yak steak and yak yoghurt... boy, I wish we could get the yak yoghurt here - so delicious!!
Anyway, in all the souvenir shops there were these ornamental, well they weren't toys, yaks in varying sizes. Jie Jie was insistent that she needed a yak, and after buying the first yak continued to wheedle and whine telling us she needed a whole family. So we went forth and bought the rest of the family, in our case, 2 parent yaks and one baby brother yak, having already purchased the big sister yak.
But, have we lived in China too long? The family apparently wasn't finished, because she also needed an ayi yak! We opted not to buy an ayi yak as we ended up convincing her that she only needed a yak family for those who were there on holiday now and who slept at our house every day!
Back home however, she happens to have five 'Little Ponies' and subsequently I have heard her turning those into a Pony Family, complete with ayi pony!
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