Merry early Christmas from Shanghai! Since for the first time EVER we will not be 'home' for Christmas, we celebrated our Shanghai Christmas on Saturday with a mix of some old & new traditions. Started off the day with our favorite holiday breakfast - french toast casserole, fruit salad and blueberry muffins. A few alterations on the normal ingredients and it all pretty much tastes the same! After that we headed to the subway for our Merry Metro Madness Christmas scavenger hunt! We traveled together to People's Square (the largest metro stop) and then broke into our teams - Andy/Abigail, Sue/Lindsey/Zoe, and Kelly/Megan. We were then off traveling about the city for the next 3 hours - snapping pictures of smiling Chinese children, things that are red, Christmas trees, and our team as we explored new areas of Shanghai. It was great fun exploring more of this city that never seems to end! After returning home we played the exchange game (using the gifts we had purchased on our scavenger hunt) and built gingerbread houses - I think the older girls enjoyed these more than Zoe/Abigail, putting all the decorations on just right! Ended the day with a viewing of "It's a Wonderful Life" while eating our apple crisp! Today everyone was filled with excitement as we packed for Thailand to see Katie Sue & Zachery on Monday!!! We have a few people that won't be able to sleep tonight from sheer excitement alone!
Sheng Dian Kuai Le (aka: Merry Christmas!!)
Yay for all the family memories you are making!!! Yay for "It's a Wonderful Life!" Love all the fun pics of the scavenger hunt, what a great idea!! Who is the little girl in between Kelly and Megan? Just a random cute Chinese girl?
ReplyDeleteDon't know if you'll get this or not in TH. but I can hope : ) Merry Merry Christmas! We really really miss you. Delivered cookies today and wanted to bring some to YOU!!! Giant hugs and love always!!!!!!!