Shopping and Trick-or-treats

Today was a great day. We headed out early and went to a store that a lot of our friends buy accessories from here in the City. The store was extremely neat in that it had gorgeous Chinese furniture, lamps, pictures, and just knick knack things. We ended up picking up Chinese placesettings, which includes a little plate, a small bowl, a tea cup, chopsticks and its holder, and the Chinese spoon. We have been wanting to get a set like this so when we entertain and serve Chinese food we have something nicer than the cheap chopsticks I had gotten us at Carrefour when we first moved in.

After this store, we headed to have lunch at Blue Frog, a popular restaurant for expats that is located in the same district area of the store. They have a nice area for the kids to play and we were given table near this area, so Dustin and I could sit for a little bit and keep a good eye on them as well. Josh had a great time just walking between where Danny was playing and us. We had a nice lunch and then headed over to the flower market.

We went to the flower market to pick up some artificial orchids to go in this vase Dustin had bought a while back. We have been wanting to get over here for some time, but the weekends just seem to get so busy. Josh began having a melt down, so we headed home quickly.

After naps we had a nice dinner and then got the boys dressed to go trick-or-treat. They had a party/festival at the clubhouse, but numerous people said it was crazy last year, so we did not bother to go see it. We took the kids to the community next to ours where there are houses rather than apartments. We started at my friend Diane's house, and Josh was just hilarious. He did not get it at first and actually looked like he might cry, yet after the second house he realized the concept that when he yelled out trick or treat (in is cute version) that the people would then put candy into his basket. He was running to the next house after that. So cute--he dressed up as spiderman as well, which had the little muscles in it and everything. We stuck mostly to our friends houses and their closest neighbors.

It was a great night, just a little warm and as we were winding down and heading home, Danny summed up the unusual warm weather well by saying "I'm roasting in this, can I take it off?" So we headed home with Josh wiped out in the stroller and Danny with his spiderman tied around his waist, both excited about the candy they received.