We started the day with finding hidden presents after breakfast!
After weeks of rain, Saturday was a beautiful, clear day. We had lunch in the Italian restaurant in the Jinmao Tower to enjoy the amazing view.
That's the World Financial Center out the window to the right, where we had lunch with my parents. The Jinmao Tower seems to come only to it's knees!
After a quick trip to the Coldstone Creamery in the World Financial Center, we headed to Century Park, where the kids scootered and skateboarded, often with an audience! 
We topped off the time at the park with a few rides in the little amusement park... typical of Chinese parks to have a small area of rides. You buy a ticket for each ride, most are 5 or 10 RMB each.
After weeks of rain, Saturday was a beautiful, clear day. We had lunch in the Italian restaurant in the Jinmao Tower to enjoy the amazing view.
That's the World Financial Center out the window to the right, where we had lunch with my parents. The Jinmao Tower seems to come only to it's knees!After a quick trip to the Coldstone Creamery in the World Financial Center, we headed to Century Park, where the kids scootered and skateboarded, often with an audience! We topped off the time at the park with a few rides in the little amusement park... typical of Chinese parks to have a small area of rides. You buy a ticket for each ride, most are 5 or 10 RMB each. Beautiful forsythea bush at the park exit!
Saturday evening we had our small group meeting... we all sang Happy Birthday to Gwen and shared cupcakes! Pictured here with Gwen are her friends, Jacelyn and Sarah. 
It was such a great birthday day! It was wonderful for me to have all the kids with us for the day, all of us having fun together. Not easy with this crew to please everyone, let alone have them all home on a Saturday. It was a gift for me as much as it was for Gwen. :-)
Saturday evening we had our small group meeting... we all sang Happy Birthday to Gwen and shared cupcakes! Pictured here with Gwen are her friends, Jacelyn and Sarah. It was such a great birthday day! It was wonderful for me to have all the kids with us for the day, all of us having fun together. Not easy with this crew to please everyone, let alone have them all home on a Saturday. It was a gift for me as much as it was for Gwen. :-)
6 comments:
Happy Birthday to Gwen!!!
We need to Sk*ype !
Hope to see you soon
Love and Hugs
c & k
Lynne, it sounds like such a fun day! What a fun birthday to remember! The weather was such a gift! Mom E.
The picture of you and the girls was great!
I thought of you all on the 14th- that is my brother Stephen's birthday too. Hope it was a fun one- I know how hard it is to have moments when all are together!
Perfect day! How nice that her b'day fell on a Saturday!
What a beautiful picture of you and the girls! They have a COLD STONE CREAMERY in China??????! That's it, I'm coming...
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