Nicholas
Then in the afternoon we went with Jennifer and the boys to Sydney's school's annual picnic at one of their campuses. They couldn't have picked a better day. The weather in Shanghai has been nice and cool since the typhoon blew through here last Monday. There were games, food, balloons, drinks and Jeffrey the Toys R' Us giraffe (some poor soul in a giraffe costume). Sydney was too scared to approach Jeffrey but Nicholas was fearless. So after 2 hours, a bag of popcorn, cookie, fruit bowl, juice box and 4 balloons later, Sydney was ready to head out.
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The Jetts
Jennifer and Julien
After the picnic, Jennifer took us to a children's market, which I've only heard about but have never been. It is an underground mall (literally) consisting of dozens of stalls selling all things babies. And I mean DOZENS of stalls. It was a bit overwhelming and required a bit time to visit all of the stores and dig through the piles of clothes. I'm told that most of the clothes come from manufacturers of brand names (ex. Gap, Ralph Lauren, OshKosh, etc) who have excess supply so they sell them at the children's market for a cheap price. Unfortunately, Sydney wanted to run around the market, which was impossible to do because of the large crowd of people there, so we left before I could go through all of the stores. I did manage to get Sydney a cute sweater for US$7, a pair of pajamas for US$6 and a toy for US$5.
Sydney was wired from her exciting day and it took some time to get her to bed. But she is now sleeping comfortably, the dishes are done, the kitchen cleaned, the laundry has been folded and put away, and I am exhausted. Good night.
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