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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This is what we came for, fashion week. There are signs all over the city for this. Girls should be pretty busy for the next week. I will be alone 🙁
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Kaatje had a photo shoot today so Kaelyn and I had a slow morning and a day of exploring. I found a new mall about 5 blocks away called IAPM. On the walk, I found a gas station (there aren’t many around here) and noticed the price per litre, $1.42CAD When we arrived at the mall, it’s certainly the fanciest one we’ve seen yet. 2 level apple store....
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Kaatje had a catalog shoot, so Kaelyn and I had the day together. Time to do a little shopping and lets face it, Walmart means lower priced goods, and we needed to pickup some stuff shampoo for the girls cereal and related breakfast items (going to try scrambled eggs sandwiches in the apartment) I wanted to get them a battery pack to charge their phone for those...
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Kaatje had an early casting so when she was done, we decided to zip down to Yu Gardens to give her a quick walk through. It was still insanely busy so we didn’t stay long or shop, but let her creative mind see the amazing buildings. We will go a day they are both less busy and actually go in the gardens. We did note this time there was 1 McDonald’s, 2...
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