Oh My Gosh it is November!

And I have certainly been neglecting things! Specifically, this blog:(

We have been busy living our lives...isn't that what we all do?

As you can see by the new picture at the top of the blog I went with Keary back to the pumpkin place.  We packed two cases of apples, some bags of the squash we cook down for pumpkin recipes, some bags of apples, some bags of a fruit that isn't quite a peach, and a whole lot of pumpkins into the back of her van.  We felt a bit selfish not inviting someone else to come along but we knew there would be a spacial challenge involved in fitting more people and more pumpkin in.  This is the back of the van with squash and pumpkins all the way up to the seats.  This is the lady that sold them to us.  She thought we were cute.  Especially me and my lousy Chinese.  She liked us so much she gave us several of the pumpkins!!  I made applesauce, and apple crisp.  Peachy crisp and baked then smushed the pumpkin.

My sunglasses broke a couple months ago and Olivia has been wanting a pair of sunglasses and glasses are CHEAP here.  Or maybe I should say inexpensive for prescription glasses at Glasses City.  Sadly I have no pictures of Glasses City.  I will get some when I take Mike to get some new glasses.  It is a huge building that is full of little glasses shops like all the other market places to shop around China.  I have a friend from Finland who can test your eyes and write your prescription for glasses.  (We actually went to the Dr. to have them done here.)   She used to work at Glasses City so I asked her to go there with me and show me how it is done.  The advantage of going with her was I didn't even have to bargain, they gave me the best price right off the bat.  So nice not to have to haggle. But today I can post pictures of me and Olivia in our new sunglasses and Olivia in her new glasses.

These are the new glasses....umm, I know that is obvious they are not sunglasses! They have purple bows:)

These are the sunglasses in case you weren't sure:)

I think they are cute!

She is happy, she has never had prescription sunglasses before.

This is her glasses case, it looks just like my new glasses case....so to solve the problem of not knowing whose was whose I made a little charm for hers from beads I brought.

My new sunglasses:):)

They are taking a bit of getting used to because they are brown lenses, never had them before always the blue/gray sort.

I will try to be better.

(I keep saying that.....)

Love, fondly, Sincerely,

Zaijian,

Ramona