Thursday, November 13, 2008
Kung Fu
Kung Fu Panda is the recent family favorite. Hayden, especially loves to do kung fu moves. Doesn't he look tough in his lavender chenille strip from Lizzy's robe?
Bargain
A while back I took a shopping trip to Beijing with some friends to one of these markets, similar to the silk alley, where they raise the prices sky high, expecting to be bargained down. My original intent of going was to find a winter coat for Hayden, so when I passed by this coat, I thought,
"What an absolutely adorable coat for Lizzy, but I really don't need it, she already has as winter coat." But I still couldn't resist looking at it longingly. The saleslady of course seized the opportunity and told me the coat can be mine for 400RMB. I told her the truth, "I don't need it." And turned around and left. She, of course, thinks I'm just playing the bargaining game and said, "200 ok, 200 ok". Tempting as it was, I had told myself to exercise some discipline and ONLY buy Hayden's winter coat, so again I said, "I really don't want it." "How much you pay?" At this point, I just wanted to give her a ridiculous low price just to get her off my back so I said, "80 RMB" and again turned around to leave. "ok, ok, 80, aiyo, you good bargain, I go broke."
So, I walked away with this beautiful winter dress coat for Lizzy for the price of 10 US Dollars. She loves it!
"What an absolutely adorable coat for Lizzy, but I really don't need it, she already has as winter coat." But I still couldn't resist looking at it longingly. The saleslady of course seized the opportunity and told me the coat can be mine for 400RMB. I told her the truth, "I don't need it." And turned around and left. She, of course, thinks I'm just playing the bargaining game and said, "200 ok, 200 ok". Tempting as it was, I had told myself to exercise some discipline and ONLY buy Hayden's winter coat, so again I said, "I really don't want it." "How much you pay?" At this point, I just wanted to give her a ridiculous low price just to get her off my back so I said, "80 RMB" and again turned around to leave. "ok, ok, 80, aiyo, you good bargain, I go broke."
So, I walked away with this beautiful winter dress coat for Lizzy for the price of 10 US Dollars. She loves it!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Zoo pictures
This time I decided to pay the extra TWO kuai (equivalent of nothing in USD) to let the kids see the tigers and the lions.
baby tigers!
Feeding ducks!
Hayden isn't quite strong enough to fling the bread crumbs past the ledge, so there was a collection of breadcrumbs on the ground. The ducks were sort of angry about that, they saw him fling his arm, but yet no food in their mouths.
Almost always we feel like "the zoo", because people love to admire our biracial children. Here, a family asked to take a picture of the kids. It's nice when they ask, because a lot of times they don't.
baby tigers!
Feeding ducks!
Hayden isn't quite strong enough to fling the bread crumbs past the ledge, so there was a collection of breadcrumbs on the ground. The ducks were sort of angry about that, they saw him fling his arm, but yet no food in their mouths.
Almost always we feel like "the zoo", because people love to admire our biracial children. Here, a family asked to take a picture of the kids. It's nice when they ask, because a lot of times they don't.
Monday, November 10, 2008
desktop
Ah ma bought a new computer and needs a good picture of the kids for her desktop. We had a picture taking session but I"m not sure any turned out. No matter what, here they are:
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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