Polka Dot Party.

Last week when we went over to our favorite shop in Xiamen, Temptations wine & coffee, Siew's sister came running up to Tina all excited and made sure to invite us to a party that she was throwing at Temptations on the next weekend, which was last night. But, and here was the catch, it's a polka dot party so you need to wear something with polka dots. Actually it was a 70's/polka dot party, so we could choose which we wanted to wear. That was nice of her to give us that option, as we had both brought all of our seventies outfits with us when we moved over here.
Well, we had a week to find something to wear, so we did our best. Turns out that the reason for the party was that it was Siew's sisters birthday, and she had quite a turnout of friends. The above photo is Siew, her sister (also named Siew or close and I'm not sure how to spell it), one of their workers, and Allen, the sister's husband.

This is my seventies shirt, we put our collars up but I felt that to really complete the outfit I needed to have a few gold chains on. What did help is that Ben and George had less of an outfit then me....

Tina went all out for her outfit and used a polka dot strip to tie her hair up. It had more of a fifties look, but she fit the party criteria more than I did.

It was a good night to sit outside and enjoy the winter weather, and the food that they had cooked up was excellent. There was a mini scavenger hunt, and Tina and Ben (one of Siews kids) teamed up and won a box of cookies.

Oh, and the new raised road that their building, it goes right past Temptations, so while we sat on the patio we could watch the ongoing construction. Below you can see them pouring the concrete for the pillar on the left, and getting ready to put the roadway up on the right. They stopped working last night shortly after 21:00, but Siew told us that most nights they seem to work straight through and that it's been a rough month because of the constant noise.