The Camera Contraption and Christmas Soccer!

December 25, 2016

Let's go ahead and look at this thing:

Herschel rigged his iphone with rubber bands to our ergo baby carrier. This gave him the needed cushion/shocks from bumping around on the moto and a good field of vision for capturing the streets and area as he drove. He got some incredible footage with commentary. It really felt like your were watching a TV episode of what could be dubbed: "Inside China: Not the tourist route".

 Back to Christmas...
Our friend, K had the great idea of getting the fams together to play soccer and Christmas Day seemed the best time.

We ordered a ham from taobao (the internet) and I put it in to bake and then we went to go play.
It was girls v guys (with David joining the girls team for a little help)

 This was on turf and I kept sliding. (a really good excuse too).

bro v bro. Both Herschel and David are excellent soccer players. This was fun to watch.

Yes, I may have been trash talking to an eleven year old...

 You can see he wasn't phased....

 That's okay, Sophia saves the day (I love CS's reaction in the back ground!)

Here she comes...

She gets a body check from JS...

Tobin brings it in...

Herschel tries to prevent getting 'megged by Bella.

The girls lost in the end but we had a blast!

We live in a beautiful place, look at those mountains.
Herschel loved exploring this valley, was impressed with its palm trees, and the hospitality of the folks around us.

We returned home to our ham, and the S fam came to join us for our Christmas dinner.
Herschel became a fave uncle also for bringing the old Star Wars movies, and we watched all three with the kids while he was here!
This was a very Merry Christmas for us!