Street Food

David, Solomon, Abraham were on our way to Saturday Night church.  Triniti was at her friend Costanza's house for a sleepover.  We were hungry.  The boys wanted "meat sticks" from the local street vendors.  They wanted me to have some too.  So we found some vendors in an alley between shops.



                                                                          The selection

Going left to right we have bread, potatos, mushrooms and
an array of meat...chicken, pork, steak.

Solomon bought at apple from a fruit vendor just a couple carts down from the meat vendor

China National Day

As you can imagine China National Day here is really big.  There are red lamp decorations and red banners with yellow chinese symbols everywhere.  They are pretty at night... soft yellow glow inside the red ballon style lanterns, it makes me feel "Chrismassy."   :-)

This is one of the 3 entrances into our apartment complex.

 National Day is a lot like our July 4th, except it lasts for almost a week. School is closed for the week.  Fireworks go off all hours of the day. We have seen and heard fireworks going off between our apartment buildings.  When we hear them get started we just put on our show and jacket and walk outside to watch.  Kinda of crazy, not the safest location in my mind.  The city has a massive fireworks display in Century Park several evening this week.  We have heard and felt the booms and could see the smoke through the tall building around us.  The buildings block the view of the sky so we can't see the fireworks from our balcony... to bad.  We went to Kerry Parkside and then drove down to the heart of the show at Century Park. The show lasts almost 2 hours.  It is realy loud and amazing.

IKEA

We have made many trips to IKEA here in Shanghai.  Our apartment is full of new items bought at the IKEA store and used items bought from the Shanghai Second hand shop. Here is Triniti modeling my new laundry basket. 

Walmart in Shanghai

Visiting the local Walmart.  China National Day is just around the corner so there are red festive decorations everywhere, even at Walmart Supercenter.

 On our way in we passed an elderly gentlemen putting a large plastic bag of rice into the basket on the front of his bike. David noticed that his rice was running right out of the bag and throw the wire basket to the ground.

David and Triniti went back to help him.  David flagged down a lady that was passing by and she had a couple extra bags so they were able to salvage most of his rice. You can see in the picture below that he was happy about the help.