Three words characterized our day today...Jedi's, Dr. Pepper (this counts as one word!) and Barbie. Last night we let Zoe watch Star Wars for the first time...she has already played many a game of Star Wars Wii and has Star Wars legos, so it was a natural transition to watch the show (once it arrived in the shipment!). As only a girl could when watching Star Wars, Zoe says "I am so excited I feel like I should get Fancy Nancy (the name of her Build A Bear stuffed animal) and put her in her Jedi clothes!" Megan, Abigail and Zoe spent this morning playing the "Jedi's of Shanghai" - we have a powerful spaceship made of a cardboard box, umbrella light sabres, and blanket uniforms. Love the imagination of children and the willingness of teenagers to join right in!
As the Jedi's were saving Shanghai from the dark forces, Kelly and I were out making a most wonderful purchase. For background, you can only find Dr Pepper at one import grocery store and it costs $1.25US per can (so we don't have it often!). Today in a 'I really miss the tastes of home' moment we wandered into the grocery store looking to buy two cans of DP when we saw that it was on special...just $0.35 per can! So we bought all we could carry - that would be 34 lovely cans! The checkout lady laughed at us and then our driver laughed even more...but we have 34 cans of DP, and they don't so who is laughing now?!?! We plan to go back tomorrow with our box and purchase the rest of what they have on the shelves!
To top off the day, we took the littler girls to the Barbie Store Shanghai - 4 floors of everything pink, girlie and Barbie! (Abigail and Zoe loved it most, but from the pictures you can see that Kelly & Megan had fun too!!) We watched the 'runway' show, ate Barbie cupcakes, drank huge Mango & Strawberry Shaved Ice, took lots of pictures, did lots of playing and finally selected a couple of fun Barbies to bring home.
Thank you Jesus for providing some fun times to just be a kid today!
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