Lela & Mega's Birthday Party

On Tuesday night, we went out for dinner to celebrate Lela's 3rd birthday, and Mega's 25th birthday. Lela is Gaoshan's daughter - his wife and Lela had been staying with him for two weeks, and they flew back early Wednesday morning. The restaurant was called Guilin, I think, and it was HUGE. We had our own private room on the second floor, and as we were being led there, we passed two massive ballrooms, an enormous main room, and what seemed like hundreds of private rooms.

And we ate like kings. The pinnacle was the Peking Duck, which was definitely the best I've had since I've been here - and they carve the duck right in front of you. Needless to say we all ate too much, then we ate some more. We also had bought two cakes from Tour De Jous (a "French" bakery in Wudaokou... it's about as close to real pastry and cake that you get in China). Here are just a few photos - there are more to come.



This isn't a whole group photo unfortunately.
Standing - Jiwu, Andri, Candra, Gaoshan, Aishanxin.
Seated - Phoebe, Me, Andres, Lela, Mega, Delia (Turkish)



Andri with our bottle of Yellow Wine - it tasted like nasty white wine, but it's made of rice.



The two birthday girls!

Lela is absolutely adorable - she has the squeakiest, highest, cartoon-ish Japanese voice you've ever heard, and so smart for 3 years old! She was teaching us Japanese, and she learnt how to say thankyou in Chinese (谢谢). She also spent quite a while playing with her new presents under the table.

It was a fabulous night, and the restaurant was great, albeit a touch expensive. I will add more photos as I get them.