My Birthday

Up at 8:00.  I know, I was shocked too since I didn't go to bed until around 3:00 a.m.  Todd had everything cleaned up and thrown away.  What a great guy.  All I had to do was the few dishes in the sink. 

Cameron came home at 9:30 and we left at 10 to go to Tianjin.  I swear Mr. Xue took the world's longest way to Metro. After an hour and 15 minutes in the car we were by Aqua City so we decided to stop there.  It is a grocery store.  We found a few things we needed then hit McDonald's for a quick snack in the car.

Someone left their head at our house.

Finally got to Metro.  We walked around there picking up some groceries that we needed.  We were waiting in line to check out when a Chinese man tried to put his things on the belt.  Todd moved them back and put our stuff on.  We were waiting in line but this guy just didn't want to wait I guess.  Luckily he was nice about it and Todd was.  We loaded up the van and headed home.  Again, Mr. Xue took the longest way home. 

This was weird.

Once back at home Cameron vacuumed the apartment and then mopped the spots that were super sticky.  It is amazing how gross a floor gets during a party.  Cameron went out to play with the boys for about 30 minutes.  Came back in to help Todd cook some giant steaks for my birthday.


We ate, cleaned up, and got ready for Trick or Treating.  Dinner was so delicious.  I was stuffed but we still had a lot to do.  Cameron had to open his Halloween gift early because he needed to use his bag to trick or treat.  Grandma and Grandpa brought a few surprises when from America. At 5:30 we walked over to building A to meet up with everyone else.  There was quite a crowd.  Lots of little kids all dressed up.  Around 5:45 Jessica made the announcement that it was go time. 

These steaks look so good.

My birthday dinner.

We gave Cameron a 3D DS game.

He got a Ripley's Believe It Or Not book from
Grandma and Grandpa.

Cameron, Alfredo, and Andreus with matching masks.

Alejandro had a matching mask too.

I went back to the apartment to pass out candy and Todd walked around with they boys.  He had Cameron, Alfredo, Manuel, Andreus, Eric, Rojan, Nadeem, and another Dad.  One group came to our apartment right at the beginning.  Then it got boring.  I finally got a chair to sit in the hall so I could close the door so bugs didn't go in the apartment.  I turned some music on and sat and waited and waited and waited.  Todd stopped by while the kids went up to the upper floors and I told him there hasn't been many kids.  He was surprised because he said there were a ton of kids walking around.  We aren't sure if they just didn't come all the way down to our building or what.  By the time it was over I'd say we had 50 kids that stopped by.  The boys had a great time and got a lot of candy.

Our friends from Bangjing wan brought their vans over and had trunk or treating out of them.  That was pretty funny.  Cameron said when they went by though no one was at their vans so they didn't get to get anything from them.  Overall it was a great night for trick or treating.

Happy birthday to me.  Off to bed. 

Side note:
When I was doing dishes I noticed our TsingTao bottle opener was missing off the fridge.  Todd said he saw it somewhere.  I looked around but couldn't find it.  When we got to the fountain for trick or treating one of our party-goers came up to me and said"I was going through my knapsack when we got home and I noticed this in it".  He handed me our bottle opener.  He said he doesn't know if it fell in or what but he wanted to return it.Yay, our bottle opener found its way back to us.  That was very nice of him to return it to us.