It’s hard when half your family is exactly 12hrs behind. You want to stay up as late as possible so you can chat with them during the day. We do miss them terribly. On the other side of the day, most mornings go like this wake up at 7am so I can chat with Maria before bed Talk to Tammy, Sam and Cierra Talk to Mom/Hailey Mom/Hailey spend time together Talk to...
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Kattje is very busy these days, which gives Kaelyn and I more time to spend together. Kaelyn was REALLY craving a true Canadian type hamburger (re: with lots of onions). I had just the place and was the place I wanted to try Thailand Pineapple Rice again. Mine was good but I must say, Kaelyn’s looked SO good – I was very envious and wanted to grab it...
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Garbage pickup in Shanghai must happen very frequently but I really don’t see the trucks doing it. Maybe late at night? But the process to get the garbage picked up is pretty simple, you just make a big pile by the road. Tonight I see this pile walking back from the girls apartment. In the morning, it’s all gone. No bins and no specific pickup locations...
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Kaelyn just sent me this picture of her photo shoot. Pretty awesome! It’s an ad for a special ‘Halloween’ beer edition that you pour fake blood into...
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Kaelyn had a job all day and Kaatje was done a little early (4pm) so we decided to head out before her week of craziness. We first walked to the IAMP mall since it was just Kaelyn and I who went on the weekend and she promptly told me how it looks EXACTLY like the malls in Singapore. We then hoped in a taxi to see if we could get into the actual gardens at Yu...
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Just a quick video – I went to one of the vendors we saw the first week or so, they make various baked goods. Today I thought I would start off easy – flat bread with green onions inside. If it went well, I would expand to the chili one or some of the other sandwiches (no one has gotten sick yet, so we are VERY cautious as we don’t want to start...
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