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This “sticky post” is to easily direct you to highlight posts in recent events. As time gets away from us, a few posts are done late. Below you will see links to recent additions.

Recent Posts:

Thanksgiving in Zhangjiajie

Bhutan – The Valley of the Thunder Dragon

Old posts recently posted:

Graduation!!

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The annual Concordia Auction Gala is a fund raiser for the Yunnan Water Project. When we first arrived in Shanghai, we went to the Concordia Gala. We had not been in about five years to the Gala. Rachael went last year and said we were GOING this year.

Rachael and I went […]

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The big milestone birthday! The girls had school, but Jim did not have work as he was off for the National Holiday. China holidays are always odd…expected to work the weekend before the holiday. I arranged to meet some of our friends for an afternoon of friendship, margaritas and good food.

(clockwise) Mark, […]

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Our Aussie friends, Rachael and Mike, organized a table for the Aussie Ball. The theme for the party was the Ultimate 80’s.

Rachael organized and dressed our table as Pac-Man. She is our expert Taobao (Chinese version of Amazon) buyer and she found wigs for 8rmb ($1.30) and coloured feather […]

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June 14-24 2014: Emersyn and I participated in the annual Concordia Marine Ecology Program dive trip to Koh PhiPhi, Thailand. This was the second year at Koh PhiPhi were we are surveying a designated section of reef to document changes in coral, fish and invertebrates. The data collected goes to Reef Check who studies […]

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Jennifer’s tennis friend, Nancy, puts on a big adult Halloween party each year. It is held at Bubba’s on the Cool Docks on the river on the Puxi side. Costume is required attire. Jennifer signed us up for the Gong show performance. Scott would be lead rapper to “Baby got Back” while Jennifer, I, […]

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We arrived home from Thailand on Saturday. On Sunday, the girls and I made a cake for Jim’s birthday. Jim and I decided we would celebrate his birthday tonight – on Sunday. Eleri wanted to celebrate on his birthday – on Monday. Monday nights are not a good day for a celebration. The girls […]

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It is time to say good-bye (Zai Jian) to another good friend – the Bishops are moving to Michigan. We HAD four families that spent many school days and holidays together – the Bishops, the Jenkins and the Humes. The Humes left in 2011 for Michigan and now the Bishops are following. It is […]

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Planting time to make the deck look nice for Faith and Dan’s going away party on Saturday. Eleri and Jim ventured to the flower market. They spent less 100rmb for flowers for the pots.

When they returned home, Eleri was ready to help plant.

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Nicole and Michael decided on a destination wedding in Mexico. They chose a nice resort in Playa Del Carmen, south of Cancun. The only challenge was getting Mimi and Papa there and back unscathed. I had the “sonly” duty to escort them. Unfortunately, Brenda and the girls were not able to go due to […]