Okay, while Blogger is in the mood, I figured I should post a few more recent pics, even though I REALLY need to get to bed now and will pay for it tomorrow... o well... just a few more minutes. Anyways, as some of you know, Andrew celebrated his 33rd birthday last week, so here are a few pics of the day (sorry they're a bit out of order):
Big dinner in the evening with the principals and all the foreign staff at a steak restaurant. It was a super-great coincidence that it was planned for the same day as Andrew's b-day as he LOVES steak! 
Crazy dry-ice drinks after dinner... not that we were drinking the dry ice, but they were served with dry ice all around and came to the table steaming (or whatever it is that dry ice does)... fabulous presentation!
My drink, also presented with dry ice... it was "rose juice" which I chose off the menu just b/c I'd never tried it before (and had never even heard of it), so I figured "what the heck, why not?!" It was SO delicious! I think I'm hooked.
At the end we turned out all the lights and brought Andrew cakes and sang Happy Birthday to him... I hope he was surprised. Notice the Canadian and Chinese flags on the table? Nice touch.
A full picture of the 14 dinner guests... all the Chinese people on one side; us whiteys on the other. Seating is VERY important to the Chinese and there's usually a big (LOUD) discussion about who sits where, and then we're assigned our seats. At the end of the evening, the restaurant gave us all a present: half of us got tea towels with the restaurant's name embroidered on it ("Wang Steak"), and the others got a pair of slippers, again with Wang Steak on them. Random!
Birthday table for Andrew before breakfast... I got him a few gifts (that I'd brought from Canada) and his parents had sent along a card too... he was very happy with it all!
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Corinna, I had a lot to catch up on. Thanks for posting all the photos and text. I love to hear how you guys are doing.
Glad you are well.
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