We were so excited to have the grandparents visit. They made it back safely over a week ago, but we're still trying to recover from the fun we had and regular life craziness, so here are a few of the pictures from the visit now.
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Aaron's 10th Birthday! |
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Grandma Sharla and Grandpa John brought all kinds of wonderful presents |
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Aaron building his birthday robot |
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Playing a birthday game from Grandpa Jeff and Grandma Mary |
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One of our kids from our English sessions gave us some of the traditional Dragon Boat Festival food called zòng zi (粽子).
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This version was made with sticky purple rice and red beans, and was tastier that some other versions we've had in the past. |
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The biggest adventure we had was taking a riverboat ride at the 3 Gorges |
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The scenery is really beautiful |
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This was the bathrooms by the parking lot. If you were to guess how to interpret the sign kid with basketball, what would that mean to you? |
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Western children's potty is the correct answer |
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The grandparents brought everyone new clothes. Abigail appreciated that gift the most. |
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We went to a new restaurant that opened recently in town |
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Caleb's pizza |
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The cheese pizza was pretty good |
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We also got the meat party platter, which we thought would have chicken nuggets, but they were mushroom nuggets |
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It took a while to convince them that we really did want plain, salty not sweet, cheese pizza, but when it came it was pretty good. |
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The meat lovers stuffed crust wasn't as good. The crust was stuffed with pumpkin. |
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Definitely edible and OK, just not something we'd order again. |
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All eight of us in our car |
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After pizza we went to the forest park nearby |
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Giant teeter-totter |
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Grandpa John giving rides |
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Grandma Sharla doing the magic carpet ride game |
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It also got combined with the knock Grandma down game |
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The grandparents brought supplies so the kids could each create their own games. |
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And lots of other games were played |
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Making cookies |
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More cookies |
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Piano lessons with games! |
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Playing Busytown |
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One of the favorite new things to do was play football against the grandparents |
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They took them to a playplace |
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Reading and painting |
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More reading |
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Shirts Grandma made |
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4th of July fun |
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Getting the grandkids ice cream |
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Princess Abigail |
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Watching movies |
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Group picture on the 4th of July! |
Such a great visit! Thanks for coming!
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