The time came to say good-bye to Mr. Hou and Susan. Mr. Hou works for a company and told us he already had another job lined up. As for Susan, I helped her line up 2 part time jobs for when we left. Since it was so close to Chinese New Year and they were so great we gave them their hong bao's a little early.. We also gave Susan a nice picture of the kids that she loved :) We also decided to take them both out for dinner at the only Chinese restaurant we like- Din Tai Fung. It's a very easy place to eat dumplings and rice. We did the customary thing and ordered for them, which was hard as we weren't sure what they liked! It was fun and they were very appreciative of it :)
Susan gave Rilynn a pair of amethyest earrings for her birthday and each kid a silver bracelet engraved with their english and chinese name! It was very thoughtful :)
Saying good-bye to Mr. Hou and Susan
A couple last minute foot massages, lunches, lots of tears and one last Morton's happy hour with our friends finished our last week out. The kids had school until the 21st, which was nice to get everything done.
Since it was Christmas break a lot of our friends were leaving a week before us so it felt like we were always having to say good-bye to someone :( We made such amazing friends here and they truely became our Shanghai family!! Our experience here would not have come close to be as awesome as it was without them!! They all have a very special place in our hearts and we will always love them :) Thankfully, one of our friends (Kat) were also repatriating the same day as us. Although they are in Ohio it's nice to be able to talk to each other close to the same time zone going through the same thing as us.
December 22nd we boarded our last 14 hour flight back home for a long time!!
Good-bye Shanghai!!! Never in a million years would I have thought I would've enjoyed China as much as I did!! Hopefully we will come visit again in 2014 when Disneyworld and the Shanghai Tower is finished :)
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