Saturday morning

Our family had gigantic plans for Saturday morning. With some input from Nathan and Florence, we decided we would go to the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum.

Unfortunately, Elijah had some issues. He had not had a BM in 2 days and it was beginning to "affect" him every 7 or 8 minutes. A suppository later, the school bus had still not transformed into a streamlined otter and the saga continued.

So, Anna and I headed to the museum. It's geared to slightly older kids. On top of that, a lot of the stuff is in chinese. For instance, they have a cool ride where you "go through" the body but the talking is all chinese. We did get to see some cool diagrams and could have understood Elijah's issue a little better. They had some cool exhibits: Rainforest, spiders, african safari, robots, and, of course, the human body. The highlight was a "4D" film....you know, the ones where you put on the goofy glasses. The seats vibrated, rain dropped on our heads, wind blew and snowflakes flew.....It was great. We got some lunch at new, popular restaurant nearby called EastWest, because it serves both the chinese and american style foods. A great combo for our family. Here are some pictures from the adventure. Oh, and Elijah still had not deposited when we returned home at 1:00pm. Then, I remembered that sometimes Elijah gets a little scared sitting on the big potty. That did the trick. The brick made a splash that just about ejected Elijah out of his seat! And life was good again….