Does anyone know if Les Miserables movie will come to Kunming?

I'm looking for a larger capcity washing machine. The largest I've seen is 10kg. It would be wonderful to wash several loads and then be done. I've been here 11 years and getting tired of washing such little quanties at a time. Any advise?

Gotta share this true story... My husband is American born Chinese and I'm Caucasian, from Texas. We've lived in Hong Kong 15 years and now Kunming 11 yrs.. Our 2 kids are grown now, trilingual. One married an overseas Chinese, another a Caucasion! One time, not too many years ago, I was riding on a bus and noticed my 16 yr old son walking down the side walk. He was oblivious to the gaggle of teen Chinese girls in a trance over him. As they passed by him, they turned around to stare. One girl walked into a poll and another collided with a bicyclist. My son never saw anything. Great memory for me! I still get stares, and still not completely used to it. When I go back to Texas I enjoy blending in, but hey, My husband and I play the game to our advantages. I show my face when it is to our advantage, while he hides. He shows his face when it is to our advantage, while I hide. We've learned to not be" in a wad" about it. BTW, we get stares in the U.S. because he's shorter than I am, and usually it's the white guys with the Asian wife, not the opposite like we are. : )

Does anyone have the phone number to the vet that Yuantongsi mentioned? I want to get my small dog spayed, but the vet at the west side dog market tried to convince me not to. I don't want her going into heat or going crazy for 3 weeks twice a year. She's just 2 years old. Any suggestions?

Thanks for suggestions. We took the sleeper. It was super comfortable with no hassles or stress. However, the train tracks do go through A LOT of tunnels which is a little annoying. All in all I'd do it again. As far as the consulate goes - very easy to find from Traffic hotel and no hassles - just adding passport pages. I even squeezed in a trip to Ikea, so that was fun as well. However, BEWARE of the security Xray process at the train stations. The station was very crowded at Chengdu, many people pushing ahead to put their bags on the conveyor belt, then running through the metal detector, grabbing their bag and running off. Get the picture? We thought someone had stolen one of our bags for a few minutes. The xray security basically told us "I guess someone took it". But we later found it wedged under the conveyor belt and the floor. PHEW!!