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Chinese New Year was planned for a grand adventure to Egypt. We are traveling with the Humes (John, Mary, Kelly & Erin) as we did last year to South Africa. This blog may take a few weeks to write. As I begin writing it, the people of Egypt have been protesting the […]
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Our friends, the Jenkins, were stopping over in San Francisco on their way back to Shanghai. We had arranged a dinner and theater night with them. Shrek, the Musical was playing and perfect for the kids. Of course, we don’t travel in small numbers. Our dinner and musical in the City consist of the […]
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Loading Dad and Emersyn against Terri and Andy – game on! Our house is perfect for this kind of fun. The front hall way and parlor circle around to the dinning room, then the family room and kitchen circle back around to the dinning room to form a nice figure 8. It is […]
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Christmas morning is always the joy of the year for children. Emersyn woke up at 6:30am, but waited until 7am to wake up Eleri. She knew Eleri was tired. My favorite part of the day is seeing the girls running (or this year hop) down the stairs to see what Santa delivered in […]
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Christmas eve begins with church at 4pm. Andy, Ray and Eleri went to church with Kathy, Mimi and Papa. Mimi had arrange for a front row pew for the crew. The church crew – Ray, Andy & Elle We have new neighbors renting Joe and Lynn’s house since they moved to […]
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We moved our Tahoe adventure back a day due to the rain in the Bay Area. We decided to wait to see what kind of weather rolled in on Sunday. A clear morning…so we packed the cars for the drive to Tahoe. It was an easy drive with no traffic. The only slow traffic […]
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Tree decorating is very important to the girls. This year, we were squeezing the tree decorating in on Friday night. We arrived on Thursday with the Nutcracker performance in the evening. Friday morning was a run to the mall to see Santa (to get Mom’s photos with Santa). Friday night was the only night […]
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It began to snow while we were at school today. It is cold in Shanghai in the winter, but snow is not common. It made for a beautiful winter white land. Average Rating: 4.7 out of 5 based on 293 user reviews. { “@context”: “http://schema.org/”, “@type”: “Review”, “datePublished”:”June 2, 2026″, “itemReviewed”: { “@type”: “Product”, “author”: { [ | | | | ]
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We have started this tradition of a Thanksgiving Adventure Trip to Yangshuo. Last year, we had five families to share the adventure. This year, we had SEVEN families. It is the usual gang of the Humes (Mary, John, Kelly & Erin), the Jenkins (Jennifer, Scott, Sean & Sophie) and the Bishops (Faith, Dan, Avery […]
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Halloween this year is on a Sunday. Jim has been making crepes for breakfast on the weekends. Today, he made Halloween pancakes. Terri had given the girls pancake molds for Halloween one year. Halloween is Aunt Terri’s favorite holiday. The girls have Chinese lessons on Sunday. After Chinese, Elle […] |