Party Time!

My friends here in Shenzhen like to party and that has made our holidays very fun! We had a progressive dinner for our staff, it may have been the first one in China. It was certainly the first one for the people on our team. We went to my friend Amy's very posh penthouse for drinks and appetizers. Amy is our wonderful art teacher from Wales. She has been so incredibly kind to Abbey and I. She also volunteers at the orphanage. Then we went to Samantha and Heidi's for soup and salad. It was so awesome to have Mexican soup, I felt like I was in California. We loved all their Swedish decorations, thank you Ikea.
Next up was Brad and Emily's home for our delicious main course.
Samanta - works for Sunshine Foundation, Sarah - our ayi, Lily - our
wonderful accountant, Joy - my kindergarten assistant, Abbey, Carmen - another assistant, Joanna - our Chinese teacher
Had to take a pic of Mary's gold sparkly shoes. She rides her bike a long way to work with these everyday. This is the same gal that lives on the 9th floor with no elevator. All young ladies in China wear fancy high heels and Abbey loves them. She keeps asking me to get a pink pair, and I just may.

And finally to Sabine and Hong Rong's for some German Christmas cheer. I got a great necklace from my secret santa!


And now for some random photos...
Couting down the days and really wanting to put the Baby Jesus sticker on!

Shopping with mommy at the mall. Most of the trees are decorated with blue lights. They are saving all their red decorations for Chinese New Year.
Only in China...I had to have a picture of this strange tree made out of Heineken bottles at the gate to our church.


Someone just had to put on these miniature stockings and dance around like a little elf in them.