YuYuan

Today we told all the kids we were going to go and explore China some more and we sure heard a lot of moans and groans.  They had all had a hard week at school (HA) and needed time to veg and relax at home they told us.  But we, the ever so mean parents, would not have that.  We were going to drag our children off to a fun filled day of walking around in a Chinese Garden.  Eric started to panic and didn't want the animals and bugs to get him and we all looked at Meagan for putting that thought into his head.  Even 10 years later and Meagan still doesn't like butterflies and is now influencing Eric to not like them either.  We told him there were no butterflies and/or animals other than fish and he could just run around.  He decided it wouldn't be too bad.  The girls grudgingly got into the car also and away we went.

When we first got there we went to the pearl store we always buy our pearls. And I had one of my necklaces that I love shortened because I rarely wear it.  It is now the perfect length!!!!! The girls all got some sort of jewelry also and Eric was wondering what necklace he was going to get.  I told David we need to work on getting him excited about boy toys more and getting him something when we get the girls things.

After that we went to McDonald's.  We had seen a sign for Burger King but unfortunately it is not open yet.  We have eaten more McDonald's since we have moved here than I think in our entire marriage.  After lunch we went to the gardens.

They are so pretty and the kids enjoy posing for fun pictures in just about every spot.  When we first go in there was a little pond with lots of fish.  The kids loved looking at the fish.  A family came and sat down and started to feed the fish some "baozi" (chinese rolls) and it didn't take long for practically all the fish to head to where the food was.  They were swimming on top of each other to get the food and sometimes they were out of the water.  It was just crazy!  The kids were laughing so much that we started to accumulate a little crowd to see why we were laughing.  The people with the baozi gave the kids some and then they started to feed the fish also.  This was probably the highlight of the trip.  It took a few minutes to pry them away from the fish but there was lots to explore, especially caves.

We stopped to take pictures of the kids quite a bit and had a ton of fun.  We love coming here and have decided to get our family pictures taken here in another month or so.

 Meagan said she loved it so much she wants her senior pictures here.  We reminded her that we wouldn't be living in China when she is a senior.  Then she said that maybe her and her fiance could come and get their engagement pictures here.

 Wow, our kids think that it is nothing to travel to the other side of the world.  I hope we get that through to her that it is still expensive to come here and she can't just hop on a plane just to take pictures. Here are so more pictures of us that I liked.