Friday, November 21, 2008

Around Shanghai...



There's a few bronze statues like this around town... and here's a photo of Robert and Indi in a temple...

Bali Massage


While we were in Bali an old lady gave Indi a 3 minute massage.... he dare not move, or say anything during that time... too scared!

Around the town before Halloween...




We went to a place called Xintiandi (basically lots of cafes/ restaurants and shopping place for local and tourists)... before the halloween... and Indi loves to look at their decoration...

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Halloween '08

Halloween seems to be big here in Shanghai, at the tourists and expats hang out places they kinda make an effort to decorate and have events for it... Supermarkets like Carrefour has a big section for the Halloween stuff - decoration and costumes (and it's pretty cheap!!!). Even the local wholesale market has a few stores selling all the Halloween stuff.

Indi's school had a Halloween party on the 24th, but we didn't go as Robert's out of town, and from what I've heard it's nothing to miss. So I'm glad I didn't drag Indi to see those ghosts and ghouls and had nightmares.

On the Halloween day itself the Reception class and Year 1 were asked to dress up in a 'costume', and at the end of the school day they did a little parade. Indi wears a 'KungFu Master' costume - he likes KungFu Panda! So he's a KungFu master... and he loves to wear it.



This is Indi with 2 of his friends at school... Crystal & Isabelle ...


This is Indi with our driver (mister Zhu - read: Choo), car, house, and there's the Ayi's motored bicycle (Ayi is maid - her name is Mei - will post her photo next time).

In the evening the compound where we live have their own 'trick or treating'. This is the first time Indi's excited about it, maybe he remembers all the candies and chocolates he got from last years trick or treating. We had a few friends from Indi's school over at our house, they want to do the trick or treating with us. One of them has an older kid, and she helped to draw on Indi's face. Indi couldn't make up his mind what he wants to wear, first a Batman costume... than he changed to a long sleeve T-Shirt... and becomes a rapper/ pirate... he was soooo excited with the trick or treating and the candies his getting.






Dinner after the walk... :-)


The boy on the front looks like Indi, doesn't he? Lots of people at school, even teachers, sometimes can't tell who is who...