Jan 08

First off, here is the long anticipated video from my birthday. We had dinner at an Indian restuarant that night during the course of dinner, some diners started dancing on stage. They insisted we join them, to my embarrassment. So here is the video of that.

All in all, it was a fun night.

New Years Eve was also a good time. Luckily for me, I didn't have to work on Saturday or Sunday, so I had a nice four day vacation. Erik, on the other hand, had to go to Chinese class on Saturday (to make up for having class off on Tuesday) and had to teach on Monday (to make up for having work off on Saturday). So, he stayed busy. We went out with friends on New Years Eve and then both enjoyed New Years Day off. This was the first year that I didn't watch the ball drop in Time's Square on TV, but the restuarant we were at did have a countdown on a screen for the last 10 seconds of 2007. So it was still fun. Here's some pictures from out night out.

The resturant went all out for New Year's Eve. They had this guy juggle fire, it was pretty cool. Here's a video of that.

Happy New Year everybody!

Here's some pics of us celebrating Christmas at Kid Castle. The kids and us had a lot of fun. Santa visited all the classes and did a present exchange with the kids. We also made an Advent calender with the kids. (A secular Advent calender, the kids had no idea it was originally a Christian thing. They just enjoyed coloring 25 pictures and gluing them haphazardly to posterboard.)

Singing "The 12 Days of Christmas" a song I taught them.

In Shanghai, bunny ears are also a part of Christmas.