Road Trip to Hangzhou

 We took a road trip to Hangzhou on Saturday March 31, 2012.  It is about 2 1/2 hours from Shanghai.  We went to the Leifeng Pagoda it overlooks West Lake.  We went up to the top to check out the views.

 Ben enjoying the day.

 The view from the top!

 West Lake

 There is an island in the middle of the lake.

 The boat docks.

 The trees were in bloom!

 After the pagoda we went to Qinghefang Old Street it is a pedestrian street with vendors and small shops.

 I was trying to take a picture of Gary, Kenzie & Hannah with the laughing buddha and these other people jumped into the picture to take their picture with them too.  Haha!

 We got bubbles.

 We took a boat ride on West Lake, it too us to Xiaoying Island.

 The pagoda taken from the boat

 We stopped to take the girls picture...

 ...and this happens

Anytime we stop to take a picture or just stop we become an attraction!

7 months old

 Ben turned 7 months old on Saturday March 24, 2012.  I can't believe how fast he is growing.  He is rolling really good now and can sit up by himself for a short time.  He is such a happy little guy!  He also got his first tooth.  He likes to eat pretty much anything we give him and likes to drink from a cup like his big sisters.

 He can push himself around in his walker, but only backwards so he gets stuck sometimes.  Here he is under the table.

and under the other table.  He also like to grab just about anything that is within his reach.

Field Trip to the Zoo

 We went to the Shanghai Zoo for a field trip on Thursday March 22, 2012.  Kenzie's class have been learning about animals so we went to learn more and see the animals.  Our group was Me, Kenzie and Ginevra.  We had lots of fun seeing the animals.  We also had to look for 2 legged animals, 4 legged animals and animals with AB patterns.  We also had a list to cross off of the animals we saw.

 Taking a minute to take a picture with Leo

 The Peacock!

 They also have Pandas at the Zoo.

 Sleepy Panda.  When we saw this one the girls said I think he's dead!  HAHA!  I said no he's just tired!

 Look an animal with an AB pattern! The girls had to choose a favorite animal too and this was Kenzie's!

 Ginevra's favorite the giraffe

 We saw elephants and heard them too!  They were really loud in this buliding

 Taking a picture with Mr. Ginter!

 Whose bigger Mr. Ginter or the Gorillas?  Mr. Ginter won!

Checking out the cage they use to transport the gorillas.  It was funny the girls were in here and Mr. Ginter went around to the other side and made a gorilla sound and scared all the girls!  It was pretty funny!
We had great weather for the zoo and everyone had a great time.  We will have to take Gary, Hannah and Ben back to check it out.

Jade Buddha Temple

 Today I went to The Jade Buddha Temple with Sonal and Manish's Dad to check it out.  There was a little more to see at this one than at Jing'an Temple and it was decorated a little more.

 Lanterns

 The Reclining Buddha (you couldn't take pictures of the actual Jade Buddha)

 Everyone was throwing coins into this sculpture.

 The building have so mush detail to them it looks so cool.

Fun pics

 A couple of fun pics from some of the sculptures around the temple

 Sharing an umbrella!

Hannah has been obsessed with the movie Madagascar lately so she got so excited when she saw this she had to have her picture taken with the lion!