Tomorrow is Chinese New Year Eve....
For the next 5 days Xiao Zhang and Jan will be on vacation.....What will we do??? I know....take taxis, do the dishes, wash the clothes and make our own beds. We are all a bit anxious about this...I hope we remember how to do these things....ha ha!

Yesterday Xiao Zhang made us a traditional Shanghai New Year dinner....

New Year Dinner
Beef, rice, garlic greens, dumplings,
and warm rice ball soup dessert (obviously not is not the official name for the dessert)

Egg dumplings with tomato

Tim and I spent the day running errands....us and 20 million of our closest friends. I think half of the population of Shanghai were in Carrafour this afternoon.....

Carrafour today.....People everywhere....!

The check out lanes....

Standing in line to check out....

Tim guessed from this spot it would be 10 minutes....I said he was very optimistic....it took us 20 minutes.

While we were in the US at Christmas time Abi bought a "how to make sushi" book. Tucker and Abi have been collecting supplies and tools to try out their skills. Tonight they finally had time to put it all together. I think they decided that it is harder than it looks.....They practiced with cucumber rolls...don't you love the goofy bandanas?

Sushi Kids

Not bad...

Love the presentation!!!

Lounging on the couch....enjoying the day off work and school