China thanksgiving

Eric and I have so much to be grateful for, there's no question about it. I never though I'd be grateful for Thanksgiving itself...but this year, I am. It's pretty amazing that not only did we have amazing friends to share a Thanksgiving with, but we actually had an authentic meal to eat! I'm still impressed that we managed to pull it off. Even though the American companies here in China give a vacation day for Thanksgiving, Thursday is generally just another work day. Eric saved his vacation day and he'll use it during our Christmas trip. The expat families usually get together and celebrate Thanksgiving on the weekend. Eric and I were lucky enough to have 2 Thanksgivings: one at our house on Friday and another on Saturday at a friend's house. It was a crazy weekend filled with food, friends, and sticky fingers! I'm pretty sure I ate my body-weight's worth in pie over those 48 hours. 

Xiamen: we'll sleep when we're dead

Our families have been reminding us that we haven't updated our blog in forever (its been just over a month since our last update). It's not that we haven't had a lack of interesting things going on in our lives. No, quite the contrary, we've had altogether too much filling our time since about October. I must say, I'm not complaining about being busy. It's been very nice to be involved in lots of great things.

Back to the update... In October, one of our besties, Matt and Caroline moved back to the States from China. We hadn't been to Xiamen to visit them, and we decided to fly up the weekend before they left. The Kleins know how to party hard, and this week, they did not disappoint. We took advantage of every waking moment, and also moments where we probably should have been sleeping. We had a blast.