Huānyíng guānglín zai SHANGHAI!: 2013

Samstag, 21. Dezember 2013

Happy Holidays!!

Another year is coming to an end. Christmas in on our door step and by the time you read this post we will have boarded a plane bringing us back home to our family and friends in Germany and England.

We are grateful to say that we can look back at another amazing year in Shanghai and our first one as family.

A year full of adventures, milestones, travels and loads of fun. Paul is still enjoying his job, I look back at my first year of beeing a mommy and together we look at our little Hannah and wonder where time went. This little girl which only seems to having arrived yesterday has turned into a real fun personality.

Accroding to our original plans the time would have come to leave Shanghai now. But we still love living in our apartment in Gao An Lu. Our senior neighbours Mr and Mrs. Jing have kind of beeing adopted by Hannah as Chinese grand parents. We feel more home there than ever despite some challenges that the city sometimes holds for us.

But with each one we master we learn and grow together a bit more.

And we would have never thought we would say this one day: We are not done with Shanghai yet! And so it is that year #4 is waiting for us we look forward to another full 12 months of adventures on the other side of the world.

Wherever you are we want to say THANK YOU for staying in touch with us. For not forgetting us and after all these years, still beeing interessted and taking parting in our lifes! We dont take it for granted. It is one of the greatest gifts we could have for this Christmas.

We wish you all a wonderful holiday season and a good start in the new Year.

With love from Shanghai, Germany and London

Angelika, Paul and Hannah

Montag, 16. Dezember 2013

Hannah´s little friends.. on holiday

Liam, Hannah, Lene, Emma and Sophia

A couple of months ago, Paul, Hannah and I went on a weekend break to the bamboo forest of Moganshan. 5 little friends and us parents stayed in a cottage which we hired.

What this trip was all about you can see in a small photo story on my AngelikaLincolnPhotography Website... Just click below and you will get there...

This way to the Gallery

Sonntag, 10. November 2013

Hannah goes to JAPAN!

Hi Everyone!
This is Hannah again. My mommy has found not time to share too much of our life here with you recently and sends her apologies.. must be because I keep her busy running around the apartment on all fours, trying to eat plants, opening doors and at night I´m busy with my teeth..
I heard her saying one time that she keeps loosing her brains but finding phones in jacket pockets again ;-)

She therefore allowed me to make up for the past months and create a super long post where I can tell you about our holiday in Japan! I have been dying to share this experience it with you.

For Chinas golden Week beginning of October, the three of us set off to fly over to Tokyo. It was one of those dreams of my parents to go there on holiday one day. They both had been on business, but never for fun. Good that they waited this long so I could go with them!

And I must tell you upfront: Japan is wonderful! It seems to have the collection of the best of many countries my parents have visited. It has a beautiful countryside, it is very easy to travel, you can eat LOADS of Sushi and most of all meet some wonderful people.

Everyone is so friendly and wherever you go it is super clean..I can´t think of any other place in the world where shopping malls pushchairs for us little ones and nappy changing rooms with 5 star facilities. It was almost worth visiting Japan just for that... and despite the millions of people living in a realatively small area it was so much more relaxing compared to Shanghai.

But let´s not talk, but look at some snapshots my mommy and daddy did with me

First stop: Tokyo

We went up Tokyo Tower:

Woow.. what a view...so clean and green!

You can see Mt. Fuji in the distance

for lunch..SUSHI

One night we went up the sky tree (634 meters to the top)

That´s pretty high and what a view!!!.. so clear!

that´s the difference to Shanghai which is just as big but at night much darker and

often it is too foggy to see anything

Hey daddy.. where are we going tomorrow ??

Shibuya!! the busy shopping district in Tokyo

watching famous Shibuya crossing from the top of Starbucks..

up to 1 Million people walk across it EVERY DAY!!

Mommy bought me a REAL Monchichi as souvenier!!

but she didn´t need to, because I found a REAL friend in our hotel room!

We also met up with an old colleague of Mommy, Midori. Thank god that we saw her! She saved me from not starving as we could not find any baby food in the super markets.

3 days later it was time to board a super speedy bullit train (Shikansen)