A quick New Year's recap....

Even though we are back home in China, we are still thinking about the short lived fun that we had while back home, and therefore we are going to continue to bore you with those stories...

After a relatively easy Sunday night, being a work night where we needed to get visas and I had to run into the office, we decided that we should try and do New Year's eve right and really enjoy ourselves. Thinking ahead, as Tina often does, we had booked a dinner party at La Petite Paris at 17:30 on Monday night.

I say that we thought ahead, but not really enough to get a late dinner, only enough to get that oh so early 17:30 sitting, where one needs be finished by 20:00 for the people who think to reserve their New Years' in advance. In retrospect, this worked out better for us.

We dined out with Heather and Mike, and fully enjoyed the dinner. Tina knows the owner, Alain, and he too was shocked to see us when we walked in. Again, the beauty of having someone else make the reservation for us, he was shocked to see us, and it was nice to be able to talk to him for a short time on this busy night.

As dinner finished we moved into the bar area, so they could set for their 20:00 reservation, and we enjoyed a few hours of happy reminiscing of the year past and what all it had seen. Around 22:00 the SIM cards in our phone quit, so no late night obnoxious calls could be made to our friends, and by 23:00 we left Heather and Mike to head home. They were heading out to another party where we presume they partied until at least 05:15...

On the way home we were happy to see that it was snowing, a nice thick snow that was beautifully sticking to all of the trees and cars. We got home and were in bed before midnight, ah that's a happy way to welcome 2008, with a sound sleep...

The next morning we arose early and finalized our packing and then strolled the streets to enjoy this new coating of snow.

From there we left for the airport and our 14 hour flight. Due to the snow that we so appreciated, once we boarded we had to wait for well over an hour for plane de-icing, so our flight stretched into the 16 hour range.....

But, after the completely hectic week that we had at home, the flight and the sleep went quick and before we knew it we were back being greeted with Chinese that we had just started to forget. It was a great trip and, again, we are glad that we got to see everyone that we did, and we are sad that there are still more people that we wanted to see or spend more time with.