China, Day 7: Recovery Day in Shanghai

After travelling and five full days in China, we were beat. We dropped our plans for the day, went to Disneytown for a bit, watched movies at the hotel, and just rested. 









Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dinner with the Cervantes, by Kevin

Image
A few weeks ago (April 22 nd ), we were invited to a fish fry at the Cervantes’ home (they’re members of the branch; William, Kenya, Mau, Brandon). The kids loved feeding their horses, playing tag with their kids, and playing Sleeping Queens with them. Jodi made her amazing brownies. Cervantes fried fish that William had caught the night before, fried smashed plantains, and sautéed veggies. The fish was whole and they made fun of me for asking for a knife and fork. Greasy fingers! Once you got over it looking at you, it was really good. Tessa ate hers, half of mine, and someone else’s leftovers. It was a really fun night.
Read more

Iguana Droppings, by Kevin

Image
Or rather, garobo droppings (we’ve been told that we are wrong and those dinosaur-looking lizards are NOT iguanas, they are garobos – iguanas are much prettier).  Can you see it in the picture below?  That big guy did his business right on the hood of our car. What's better? I saw it happen. We were at church with our car parked on the grass, under this tree. I ran out to the car to grab something and thought it was really cool to watch this big old iguana garobo climb up this really tall tree. It was climbing up right next to me. So cool. Then, a minute later, while I'm still sitting there, I hear something thudding the top of our car. I'm like, "Whaaa...?" (in a Minions voice), then it dawns on me. Our car is under attack! I start looking around to try to figure out how to stop it and realize there's nothing for me to do. It's too late.  At least we know what garobo droppings look like now. Costa Rica mission accomplish...
Read more

10 Day Till Christmas, by Jodi

Well, last week was my official low point so far. I was in a funk all week and poor Kevin took the brunt of it. At one point he had about all he could take and finally gave it back to me a bit. After I had a little time to absorb it, I told him I'd had it coming and I was sorry. But, this week has been much, much better. We got on a better schedule with school. Instead of just giving the kids the daily schedule and nagging them about what they've gotten done, we start all together at the same time. Then we go through the schedule together so everyone's on the same page and some of the subjects they're able to do all together. It went a lot more smoothly. They took Thursday and Friday off, though, because Ash and Tegan were staying with us while their parents went to girl's camp. Cute baby Crosby got to come over a few times too, which is super fun for all the kids and they all fight over him. Friday night and Saturday, I got to spend a bunch of time with the Pri...
Read more