Christmas Day

I think Santa has come!


Look, someone changed the countdown!


Someone ate the cookies we left (well, most of them)

Look at all the stuff. Stockings are full and other stuff too!

Hallie got an mp3 player!

Eryn likes the stickers from her stocking.

Yeah, he will probably shoot his eye out....

Liam got several transformers, Jon is trying to figure one of them out.

Jon cooked a big brunch for us with Christmas shaped biscuits!

We got to talk to Jon's family on Skype.

Eryn is dressed up to go out to eat.

We had plans to go eat dinner at a Western buffet a couple of blocks away. We dressed up and bundled up and set out to walk there.

We also brought a bag of apples.

Apples are a symbolic gift for Christmas here.

The kids handed out apples to the guard at the gate and several of the workers that sweep the streets. It was fun to see the kids give them an apple and wish them a Merry Christmas (in Chinese). I was not able to get any good pictures of it.

When we got to the buffet, we found out that they added an extra 100 yuan to the price because it was Christmas day! We thought that was too much so we walked back home, ordered pizza, and watched The Muppet's Christmas Carol. We promised the kids we would go back to the buffet in a few days when the price was back to normal.

It was a good day, but a long one. We had a great time, and were exhausted!


Merry Christmas! Sheng dun Kuai le!