Since I am slightly more rested than the last time I wrote, I decided to fill you in on my Qing Ming Holiday.
Two weeks before QM, Bruce, our 6 year-old Sunday School student, took each of his SS teachers aside and invited us all to his university (his dad is a professor so he lives at the Agriculture University) for a party. The next week, he very excitedly handed us all an invitation for his party. The Monday before the party we had our regular Sunday schedule since we had to work on Sunday and it was my turn to teach so I got to spend lots of time with Bruce. He told me all about his party and what kind of food he would have and what his dad had already done to get ready for the party. He was very excited about having pizza and Sprite. He knew I liked Sprite so he was very adamant about telling me we would have Sprite.
Tuesday, Jess and I got on the same bus as Beth and Jonathan and we rode to the last bus stop. Bruce and his parents were waiting for us and when Bruce saw us on the bus, he got super excited and started jumping up and down and waving and yelling at us to get off the bus. Since we were in the very back of the bus it took us awhile and he quickly grew impatient :)
Once we got off he was led us over to a grassy knoll to wait for the rest of the gang to come. We passed the time racing and playing a game of circle tag. Good times. The rest of the day was filled with walking around the campus (it's the largest campus area-wise since it's an agriculture university) to look at the many different trees in blossom. KeYing, Bruce's mom, gave us the tour. For lunch we had a nice picnic with pizza, fried noodles, fruit salad, chips, bread, beer, and Sprite :)
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| Bruce and KeYing |
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| me and my boys :) |
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| He's growing up so fast :) |
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| Bill, one of the Kid's Study kids |
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| rape flowers |
After lunch, half the group went home and the rest of us did more walking :) We walked around for another hour or two, then headed home. Vivian, one of my Chinese friend's came over for a bit. We played Racko and Skip-bo and then met Jess and another Chinese friend for dinner.
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| Johnny |
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| Jess, Eunice, and Sherry |
The next day brought more adventures. People from Sundays had planned to go to East Lake to see the cherry blossoms and have a picnic. Unfortunately it was rainy so it was kind of miserable, but the rain did help to keep the people away so it wasn't too crowded. And it kind of added to the beauty of lake. We had a fun group of people go. We found a shelter to eat our picnic lunch. Rachel, Chen Jing, and Vivian had made sushi the night before.
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| the beautiful lake |
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| picture collage compliments of Anna |
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| Darin carrying the food bag/showing off his sassy side |
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| Rachel, Anna, Chen Jing |
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| Jess, Louise, Richard, Rachel, Chen Jing, VIvian, Anna, Brian, Peter |
After lunch we walked around for a bit. We found a see-saw and taught our Chinese friends the different English words for it. Because it was cold and rainy we decided to go sing KTV. We sang for a couple hours, went out for dinner and then parted ways.
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| Vivian, Peter, and I using the 蒂特搀扶/teeter-totter/see saw |
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It was a busy/tiring holiday, but a great couple days spent with friends.
Eventually I'll get to finishing my Spring Festival adventure (I still have two days left!) I may throw in a couple more recent stories, too.
Until next time....His will be done.
