September has flown by...
Here are a few shots of things that have happened this month.
A daily sight - Grant and Luke on their way to school or seminary. Sometimes they take scooters, sometimes bikes.
Afternoon walk around the outside of our compound. We love this sidewalk, covered in trees.
You can't tell from this photo, but this is Luke pushing his scooter home after the battery died.
POMEGRANATE!
Grant, Luke and I played bubble football (soccer) with some people from church. It is more difficult than it looks!
Pedestrians can walk on this part of the sidewalk (no bikes)
Mallory matches the size perfectly.
A classic photo - a man and his dog (Grant found it in one of the boxes he helped unpacked - I think the dog ended up in the give-away pile, but he'll always have this photo).
I went on a mandatory weekend away with my department from work. We drove a couple of hours south of Shanghai and stayed at a hotel for two nights. We went to some sort of a park..
And we also went skiing at an indoor ski place -- it was the first time for most of the locals in my department.
At dinner at the hotel one night, they served this delicacy --- stewed frog Fallopian tubes in half a papaya. I didn't try it.
Charity bike ride with some people from work - down one side of the river, across a ferry, and then up the other side.
It ended at a hotel on the Bund, with lunch on the terrace.
We took the kids to a display for the launch of Lincoln in China.
Luke and his friend couldn't help posing in the Oktoberfest display thing.
Afterward we went to a restaurant for ice cream -- most of us had some sort of shaved ice thing -- chocolate, fruit flavored, etc.
Luke's friend ordered a giant creation -- shaved ice in the middle, with red bean on one side and green bean on the other side.
