Sunday, March 22, 2009

In flight meal

Next time you complain about the lack of a free in-flight meal on a U.S. airline, just look what you're missing. In China they generally still serve some sort of snack. Here's one I had on a recent flight to Guangzhou.

None of it stands out as particularly good, or for that matter edible. The "squids lice" (zoom in on the upper left hand package) tastes about as good as it sounds.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Birthday Carnival




Here are a few pics from today's double birthday party for Abby (8) and Ben (6). We invited all the kids in each of their school and church classes and we ended up with over 50 kids! We hired a local streetside cotton candy guy to come for the afternoon. Since cotton candy is about 10 cents a pop here, this is quite feasible and it was a huge hit. Zachary fell down on the street right before the party. He seems to have fallen directly onto his nose, since he had no scuffs on his hands, knees etc. Everyone had a great time and the weather turned just in time for the party.

More birthday pics

More birthday pics




Sunday, March 8, 2009

Chinese nursery school




Ethan attends a local Chinese nursery school where he is the only non-Chinese kid in his class. Check out the poster of his class and see if you can pick him out. The room is not really heated much so you can see the kids all wearing their coats while eating a morning snack. He loves the place and they are really nice to him.