Blogs from Tianjin, China, Asia - page 2

This is my favourite time of year.......CHRISTMAS!!!!!! But spending it in China, will we still have the same fun? Oh yes!!!! Each year in England we have a few of Matthew friends over to have some Christmas fun, making decorations, play games and this year is no different!! On Saturday we had a few friends over and we had soooo much fun. We made tree decorations, Christmas wreaths for our doors, candle decorations for the mummies, making reindeer food, lunch in the middle and making crackers, santa piñata and hunt the reindeer outside!!!! The fun never stops!!!! The kids had lots of fun and were on the go none stop the whole time (the party was 11am - 3pm!!) It was nice to share this with children of different cultures and finding out how and when ... read more

We all had lots of fun for Halloween this year!! Matthew dressed up at school and had fun trick or treating there. William had a Halloween party at nursery.....He was not impressed that his teacher painted his eyes blue and mummy turning him into a ghost!! Then in the evening we had fun at Green park trick or treating with friends!!... read more

Congratulation to my lovely friend Claire and partner Chris on their early but safe arrival of beautiful Isabel Violet. I cant wait to meet her!!Lots of love Lindsay, Andy, Matthew and William xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (there is a card in the post but it takes a long time, she will probably be crawling by the time you get it!!)... read more

Sunday was Teda's colourful 5k fun run. It's for all the local businesses, Chinese and international to get together within the community, families included. We have never been to any thing like this before, Andy and Matthew took part and William and I stayed on the side line to Cheer ADM on!! It was a great day which started very early!!! We had to be there by 6.45am!! The run started around 8.45am and there were thousands of people taking part! When the race got started there were people on the sides throwing powder paint........only with the wind blowing not all the throwers were standing in the right place and covered their selves but they kept on going and still couldn't work out why!!! Lots of photo's were taken of us while we stood on the ... read more

Hello everyone, we thought only a few of you were not getting photos because of some setting issue... now we understand most of you are not getting the great ;-) photos we are sending... they show up on our end... we will go to the tech guy on the ship tomorrow and try to get it resolved. bummer.... read more