Chinese Birthday Party for the Kids in Chongqing China 中国生日派对在重庆中国孩子

A Chinese birthday party for the kids. We went and first had fun on the jungle gym apparatus (the kids did), and then a pizza party.  

Had to share this: CLOUD KINGDOM, a new song done last Sunday, by Adam. 

This one is tuned in to happy feelings, and I love it.

Visit to Qiao Tian Men 我们访问瞧天门

Visit to Qiao Tian Men on the YuZhong Peninsula this week. Saw lots of things, and lots of people. SO FUN!!

 at McDonalds with the family, and a spontaneous photo snap with patrons there

images © 2014 grant johnson enoch studios

007 Charity Ball 007慈善舞会

We took our whole family to this large event, and stayed overnight at the same hotel. Kids swam in pool on third floor, a spectacular place on the river.

MY LOVE

HERE'S THE VIDEO. WATCH:

Comments:
SRA You guys look fantastic!

SE I see so much grandma Kate's face in that picture. I'm not saying you r old! I remembering her when she was younger. You guys look like you are having fun.

GJ we are having fun, and we are getting old, at least in the real years. When I tell people I'm 54 they always act shocked. Is that what happens when you old? People act shocked at your real age?

JRT You should have seen the young butcher's face when I told him the salmon was for my mother, at which point his eyes grew big and he gasped out...." How OLD are YOU????" So funny!!

LH What a fun looking evening.

CONSTANCE PRESENTATION:  a slide showing THE FAMILY ON A TRIP TO A LOCAL SCHOOL FOR IWG CHARITY EVENT. 

PEKING DUCK Night Out with the Family 北京烤鸭店：一个晚上与家人在一起

Two taxis to get there... from across town, but it was worth it. We had dinner with our friends Ian and Milli, and explored the famous streets and trails there afterwards.  The two taxis across town to get home, crossing the big Jialing River to get there.

In this video it shows our family mostly on the streets and trails.  They were very interesting and had a Disneyland feel to it.  Kind of like the trails that lead up to those epic rides like Pirates, or the Indiana Jones ride, etc.

We Made the FRONT PAGE NEWS in ChongQing's Newspaper. Home School. 在重庆的报纸的头版新闻我们的家庭得到了. 在家上学

FRONT PAGE NEWS!! we made front page in the ChongQing Newspaper today. Topic is Home School, Music, and Family. If you know Chinese, read all about it!! It's also on the QQ (like twitter) and Weichat throughout China. This was apparently a big deal.

The fact that my wife was in the International Women's Group and met some ladies there, and the fact that she ends up telling them that she has 12 kids does not go lost on their memory of her.  Surely this was part of the reason that we were interviewed by the Newspaper reporter and their photographer came to the home. I was there too, on my lunch break.

 The city of Chongqing's newspaper did a story on our family's home school program this Sunday! It was very positive! We had a really nice reporter over here last week, a young lady, a reporter, who is very interested in our homeschool program and what we do as a family. She was also very interested in our upstairs creative studio. So here are some photos of the printed newspaper, the website, as well as China's biggest instant message or service, QQ and wei chat.

Here is the article in Chinese on various websites:

http://cqcbepaper.cqnews.net/cqcb/html/2013-11/17/content_1693744.htm

http://news.sinovision.net/portal.php?mod=view&aid=273217&page=2

http://cqcbepaper.cqnews.net/cqcb/html/2013-11/17/content_1693744.htm

some of the comments on those Chinese web sites that ran (and still run) the story:

wulilian 2013-11-17 10:40

自由思想，随时体现。让孩子们回归到自然社会，不要去学校被洗脑。(Freedom of thought, ready to reflect. Let the children return to the natural community, do not go to school to be brainwashed.)

引用mandolo 2013-11-16 21:03

现在一个私人的三线城市的小学都要几万。(Now a private elementary school third-tier cities have tens of thousands.)

Halloween Ship on the Yangtze River 对长江船舶万圣节派对

Halloween Ship on the Yangtze River
This video was taken while were on our way to and after we arrived to the Halloween Ship Party on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang 长江). Christa is part of the committee of the ChongQing International Women's Group (IWG) with several other ladies in this city, and they secured a ship, made the invitations, promoted it, and got 400 people to want to pay and come to this event.  These events they hold are always benefitting the charitable causes this group also supports.  Pretty cool, and we had a great time and met some new people too. —

COMMENTS:

AHLG How cool! I love seeing the videos and seeing how much fun you're having. It's just awesome. Love you

LLC WOW! Decorating, planning and creating must be in your blood Cousin. Your MOM and DAD definitely rubbed off on you.

LLC YOU throw one HECK of a PARTY Christa!

SJ Wow.. I've got an influential mommy!

LLC Oh, and Grant - thanks for sharing with us you and yours awesome journey and experiences. Even though you all are so far away it is like we are all with you through your videos.

AHLG I saw 6 1/2 min. I love the videos, keep them coming!

NP Worked fine for me! Looks like crazy fun!

GWV How cool!

PAM That looks like it was so much fun!!! Thank you for sharing!!

The River Convergence Spot: Jialing and Yangtze Rivers 嘉陵江和长江

Our Family On The Yangtze River Near to Where the Halloween Cruise Ship Will Be © 2013

The ChongQing Rivers Convergence Spot: Jialing and Yangtze Rivers 嘉陵江和长江

Its Saturday morning in China, and we've got a big Halloween Party to go to tonight. Christa's gone teaching English. Emily and Jaylene are gone, went with Edurne Benevides (leader with ChongQing International Women's Group) to go decorate the Ship. Over 300 people are coming tonight (400 wanted to). Christa is going over after class to help with others to decorate and get it set up. Christa and I have got our PIRATE costumes. Emily=angel, Adam=Spidey, Audrey=witch, Jaylene=pikachu. We got all our costumes ordered on TaoBao.com what a crazy day. Christa stayed up all night sewing Emmy's costume. I can't mitigate that. I'm with Adam and Audrey, and we'll go downtown to the Yangtze River ship later this afternoon and meet up with the others. Pics and Vids will follow  This should be a great activity, meet a lot of people too!! That's what its all about.