Mid-Autumn Festival

Its a four day weekend here... Mid-Autumn Festival is today and tomorrow it Chinese National Day... Mid-Autumn is a lunar holiday and National Day is always Oct. 1st, so they aren't always at the same time. We are enjoying the break from school and the time to spend as a family. Last night we went a lantern festival in a nearby park with our friends. So fun!

 We bought plane and car lanterns for the boys... they had a blast taking them around.

 

Max kept saying, " I want it, I want it..." about the big colorful animal lanterns :o)

And no Mid-Autumn would be complete without a moon cake. This was actually a good one, green tea flavored. You can read last years post about moon cakes here.

The decorations are always so nice from this time of year... lanterns everywhere...

a week in photos..

 Max having tea at one of our favorite local restaurants.

 

Dim Sum with my boys!

 Bryan ran a 10K on Sunday morning. It was a hot humid day, but he did great!

 

We had fun watching all the runners finish.

 

Down the home stretch (Bryan has on the orange shorts)

 

Boys being silly while waiting for the bus.

some random photos...

 Here are a few random pictures from the last couple of weeks.

Max and his friend Annette at IKEA.

 Boys on the train...

 jack playing at the mini bus stop

 The new SUBWAY... getting ready to open at our station... CAN'T WAIT!

 Some pictures from last weekend, trying to get Jack to ride his bike and Max riding his car. He has really caught onto the car driving... so fun!

 Max and I often stop and look at the fish in our lobby after we put Jack on the school bus.

Beach Morning...

Yesterday we spent the morning at the beach with our friends. Such a fun morning before school. It was blazing hot though... so we didn't last forever :o) Jack and Josiah had a BLAST!

 Max was not into the pokey shell beach :o)

 He did have some fun moments though....

 Nothing like floating in the water on a hot day :o) The water was about 6 inches deep :o)

 ahhh love her!

 Max did not have his best morning...

 except for a few cuts on our feet from the shells, it was the perfect morning. A little neosporin and we were all fine :o)