Lunar New Year Celebrations

Yesterday Shawn and I went to the Lunar New Year party put on by Children's Bridge, the adoption agency. At the party we finally met Rhonda and Josh, Nicole and Tim, Paula and Brett, and Rebecca and Steve and of course Michelle and Mark. It was such a pleasure meeting all of them! I felt bad for Rhonda, Josh, Nicole and Tim, they got stuck bringing almost all the food for the party, which included 600 dumplings in an Accord, but they managed to do it. Shawn and I helped out at the pig mask table. The gang was kind enough to hang out with us while we waited for the kiddies to come by. Some even pitched in a created their own masks. Can you guess who?

At one point we even had a party crasher! The community centre has a library attached to it and I saw lady sit at the mask table with a bunch of library books and some food. She then proceeded to ask Mark what was going on. We (Rhonda, Michelle, Mark and I) all looked at each other dumbfounded. But Mark being the nice guy he is proceeded to talk to her and answer all her questions. We told Nicole what happened when she sat at the table and I loved her reaction (Cool!). There was even a Chinese dragon there, now that was cool!

We then proceeded to the Pacific Mall for some shopping. We then went to the Mandarin for dinner. I love the Mandarin, all you can eat buffet! We had great conversations about everything from the blips in the process we've experienced, infertility treatments, governmental procedures and more. It was a riot!

Thank you everyone for such a great time! We really need to get together on a regular basis.