The Big Catch Up (Part One)

I've been terribly delinquent in keeping up this blog (as Leah has repeatedly pointed out :), so I'm going to attempt to do a quick catch up on some stuff.

6.3.07: Birthday!Kim treated me to an amazing brunch at the Westin Hotel, known for having the best Sunday Brunch in Shanghai- and there is some stiff competition for that title. We ran into our friends Jason and Liz who joined us for the meal, which made our great day even better. Here Jason is on the phone with our other friend Andrew, who has The Plan for eating at the westin. Its a three hour brunch, so you have to start out with nothing but seafood for the first hour. Seafood isn't as filling, so you won't get full quickly. Sushi, lobster, crab, smoked salmon- I can do this. The second hour you go slowly but stay light on the carbs, and then then the last hour is the free for all. We had a great time, and decided to take my parents here for their anniversary when they came to Shanghai later that summer.

6.5.07 - 7.4.07

Mom, Dad, and Jackie arrive in Shanghai! Its a few days before school ends, so they hang out and see the local Shanghai Scene. We then head off for the big Tour D'Chine! From Shanghai, we went to Beijing, Yangshou, Xian and Lijiang. It was an amazing trip, and I'll write more about it later, but if I'm going to keep up with this blog, I'll just post the photos for now. Here are some highlights from the trip. I'm having some trouble with our slow internet now, so I was only able to upload about half of those I was intending to- more will be up later:


Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

You can also see them at my flickr account here.

Next up: Joe and Debbie come to Shanghai, and Kim and David go to Thailand (again).