Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Week of May 11 - [More] Catching Up From Vacation - Our Trip Part 4 - The Banquet

The day had come for the big banquet celebration for Nancy's Auntie and Uncle's 79 birthday! In China the 79th birthday celebration is a huge deal.

It was time to get all dressed up and head over to the restaurant, but first Emily insisted on a few more moments of play time on the widow seat in the Hotel Room. Notice how high up we are, and Emily has absolutely no fear of heights and spent a lot of time looking down into the school yards below, and getting finger and nose prints all over the glass. :)


But enough of the play time, time to get all dressed up. I must say Emily cleans up and dresses up really well, as we can see in this next photo. Isn't she adorable!


Once we were all dressed and ready to go, it was time to hail a taxi for the ride over to the restaurant.


And, off we went. We arrived a few minutes before the guests of honor, which was perfect timing in order to get photos of them as they enter the banquet room.




One more quick photo of Emily and Nancy before the banquet begins.


And then the banquet and celebrations, and lots and lots of photos by all the family of all the family. I'll share a few here.




Everyone had a great time, and it was great to see the family celebrating such an important milestone.

[Coming next, Emily and Nancy and I on an outing to one of Hefei's famous parks.]

1 comment:

Truly Blessed said...

How lovely that you were surrounded by family on this trip...the cake, by the way, looks yummy!