Christmas

You don’t like my snowman house of horror, do you? Os deseo una Feliz Navidad! Espero que el año nuevo esté llena de diversión y alegría. Con mucho amor, Ivan y Heather En la foto: Calvin dice “No te gusta mi escena de miedo, verdad?”

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Happy Boxing Day! We had a great weekend, but it was very tiring and now I need another weekend to recover. First of all, to my friends and family, no, I am not Scrooge, I am just lazy. Which is why you didn’t receive a card (via snail mail nor email) from me this year. [...]

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So it turns out that we didn’t need to spike the punch. At our first Christmas party of the year, there was more beer and Bai Jiu (Chinese Vodka) punch then I have seen in some bars! It was a fun evening. We didn’t even have time for the silly party games. (Whew…what a relief.) [...]

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To give you an idea of the class of Christmas decorations in the city, see below… Here the DH and I pose with the tree in front of the Beiguo department store. (It was really cold and windy.) Happy Holidays!

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These are all pictures of the 6th floor at our hotel. The housekeeper girls spent a long time decorating this place up. In the first picture, there are lights hanging across the wall, usually they are on and blinking. In the past couple of days some of the decorations have begun to sort of wilt [...]

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“… everywhere you go.” Wait, I am in China, right? Suddenly there are Christmas decorations everywhere!! It all started at our hotel, where out of the blue a few days ago, a giant Santa poster appeared on our door, and the door of every foreigner in our hotel. Then a giant tree appeared in the [...]

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