Today is the boys birthday. I knew I could convince the in-laws to go to the zoo on a week day since it's always too crowded on a weekend to do anything. So the boys got to play hooky and go to the zoo!
The boys went to bed real good last night knowing their birthday was the next day, wanting it to come faster. They always end up sleeping in on these type of days, it's the ordinary (everyday) days when they wake up early. So I get to wake them up for a change with skype in hand for my husband to wish them happy birthdays too.
We got down to business and they've opened presents before 7:30am. For their party favor I made them wallets and put it in their subway map card and their picture cards we took at Chuckie Cheese before we came. They got their birthday crowns and a slew of more Berenstein bear books in Chinese. The tinker toy type of game I got was a dud, luckily I had a back up toy on hand!
We took 3 buses to get to the zoo and finally got breakfast at McD's by 9:45. Why can't they make a happy meal for breakfast?
Trip two to the Beijing Zoo to see the aquarium. Not only do you need to buy the main zoo entrance, but tickets into the aquarium too. They wanted me to take the kids in by myself while they sit and wait, but they decided my father-in-law better accompany me.
I thought it was a pretty cool aquarium, we got to see the end of the sea lion and dolphin show, they had many fish I've never seen before, the tanks where clean. An extensive jellyfish collection.
We finally exit the aquarium by 1:30, with 3 starving and thirsty kids. Drinks are immediately opened upon finding nainai (grama). It's quite hot now, so the kids ask for icecream. This brought us to the building we ate lunch in at the zoo. My mother-in-law insists we re-wash our hands in this bathroom, because their water (they have no soap) is cleaner than the bathroom water in the aquarium(who did have soap)! One pork and one fish dish among several non-meat dishes. They really are afraid to eat any beef or chicken. I've eaten little meat and only these types of meat in their house in over 2 weeks. (So glad McD's is across the street when the kids are in school! Ha,ha.)
We take the subway home because I want to get the boys cake from Bread Talk at the mall. They make a cute car cake. Well my in-laws don't want to go there with the kids, so they try to convince them that it will take too long and I should just go get the cake by myself. Well the boys are upset, Aidan got to pick his birthday cake out, they want to pick their cake out. So I will take all 3 by myself(I'm fearless). My father-in-law comes racing off the subway to again accompany me, because I can't do it alone, and I need to take a taxi home not the bus....
Well today they didn't have any car cakes, just lots of hello kitty cakes and they won't make them(take an order). Just as well the cake wasn't chocolate(they can't conceive making it any other way). My father-in-law tries to steer the boys to the Black Forest cake, his favorite, which Aidan ended up getting for his birthday. No. So the kids got to pick out 2 slices of cake they wanted, the adults only got one. So he still got his Black Forest cake. I got a cake that had the name cherry in it, but had red currents on top of it. Yum, I really need to get some current bushes so I can make my own current sauce!
A dumpling dinner, perfect for Wensen. He ate more than me! Happy 5th Birthday me sweet boys!
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