Thanks for the Suitcase!

We are so thankful to Jon Spencer for bringing us a suitcase from my parents in Georgia. Thanks a million Jon!!!! Jon came to Shanghai for business last week and was kind enough to bring a suitcase full of goodies from the US! My mom and dad are so awesome. They packed cereal, chocolate chips, pop tarts, twizzlers and spree, brownie mixes, egg noodles, and all kinds of wonderful treats that are either hard to come by here or cost prohibitive. But best of all were the pajamas and slippers that my mother made for the kids. Before Jon left for Shanghai I got out the measuring tape to get measurements from the kids. Eve saw the tape and yelled "Yippee!!! Grandma's making clothes again!!!!!" Then when I measured her feet she yelled again about how great it was to get slippers made. That girl knows her clothes!

We had a heck of a time meeting up with Jon once he got to Shanghai, mostly because Lee and I didn't really listen when Jon tried to tell us he wasn't inside Shanghai. We were embarrassed when we finally figured things out. So Jon was kind enough to come to Shanghai and visit with us. He had lunch with us and then we took him to the Bund, which is a touristy site along the banks of the Huangpu River. We took a tunnel under the river which was kind of cheesy but fun. You get in a tram and go through a tunnel of different kinds of lights. It's supposed to be futuristic. The kids thought it was great. We walked around a little, took a few pictures and then let Jon experience the subway for the return trip. While we were on the Bund there were several weddings going on. One couple stopped us and begged Ally and Eve to be in some pictures with them. I don't know what it is about western kids, but the Chinese are always asking to take pictures with them. We usually let the kids decide if they want to do it or not. That day Ally and Eve refused, so I, like any good parent, paid them to be in the pictures! :)

We fed Jon some dinner and of course it was Lee's signature pasta and white sauce. While we were cooking, Cooper got in trouble for turning off the dvd player right in the middle of a movie that everyone else was watching. So Lee had Cooper come in the kitchen and sit in the corner. A few minutes later I asked Cooper how he was doing. He was silent, which is a big indicator that something's not quite right. I looked down and poor little Cooper was all tuckered out from a big day of walking. He was snoozing in the corner! We had to get a picture, it was just too cute.