Wednesday, October 19, 2016

The beginnings

Grandma Donna joined the many fam and friends that greeted us at the airport.
Because our seats were not together on the ocean flight they bumped us to super-econo. Yeah.
(on the way back to China the same airline bumped us all to business class. This was amazing, what a way to fly 15 hours. We could NOT believe it)
 
Incredible toys and yards awaited...

..and an amazing house right next door to Poppy and CC, that we dubbed 'next door'.
This could be what made this STAS so splendid, a great space for all, and walking distance to P and C. They worked for months and months on this....we were SO thankful, and in shock at how they made beauty from ashes.

We hit the parks right away.

 
 And the pool every day.
 until we had to get ready for high tea or something like that.

 The kids recreated drive thrus, something they feel China is lacking.