Birthday Cakes

I ordered les gateaux francaises, 2 very beautiful cakes: a scorpio for Rich and a horse for me, my Chinese zodiac symbol. The cakes cost about 350 Yuan or $58ish Cdn, and I could not have gotten them for this price at home. They were amazing works of art....iced splendidly with pineapple fruit and also jam sandwiched between vanilla cake layers. Rich's jam was blueberry and mine was strawberry. I had to take the boxed cakes home in a taxi the day of the party.

Par-TAY! And.....another trip to Piano Island

November 10th 2011
Sunday, November 6th, 2011, was bitter sweet. That was the day I taught my last class at Tianjiao and also hosted a terrific birthday party for me and Rich. Rich had turned 65 on November first and I turned 45 on November fifth. I thought it would be grand to have a combined birthday party at our apartment which would sort of double as a going-away party, too. Joyce and Charles were flying awa ... read more

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