Monday, June 15, 2009

More Fun Signs

Underground Carbarn

Don't sell them or give them away...you must keep them

Saftey is the Nearest Way to Home
These signs were on the trail that lead to Heavenly Lake in Xinziang

For Medical Salvation call 0994-3251102

To travel civilizedly is to get along harmoniously


This sign was at a temple in Changqing

Senior Pictures

These pictures were taken in an old lane in downtown Shanghai



Abi and Brittney had their senior pictures taken at the same time so the photographer took some fun pictures of them together....
"o9" Senior tee-shirts

A page from Abi's yearbook

Graduation 2009

Graduation day is finally here!

Here they come!!!

Concordia International School Shanghai Class of 2009

Fellow student Richard speaks to the graduates.

Yippee!!! Diploma in hand!

Peter receiving his diploma


Toss the hats

Abi and Peter relaxing after the ceremony

Proud (jet lagged) brother

Proud Parents

Tucker and Hattie

The Banquet

Dinner decorations

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Oh yeah.....Oh Yeah......Oh Yeah....I'm doing the happy dance!

I got my VPN working on my lap top tonight (where I store all my pictures) and on my desk top where I originally installed my VPN!!! Now I am free to work around the "Great Fire Wall of China" AND..... I have lots of space on my new blog to post photos!!! I am still dancing because I did all of this myself....yep...thats right...no help from my techy family members. This is a proud moment and so I am just going to wallow in it for a few minutes.

We have had lots going on in the past few weeks at the Spoffords...

Here is a quick overview and then I will post photos and editorial remarks in the next few days.

Abi graduated on Thursday....it was a full day of activities that started at 7:00am and ended at 10:30pm

Tucker and Hattie arrived on Wednesday evening to share in the graduation festivities

Tim was in Taipei most of last week and arrived home Wednesday evening around midnight just in time to catch a few hours of sleep before the graduation celebration began.

We are about one week away from our departure to Mt Everest

That's all for tonight since it is almost 11:00pm. Stay tuned for more "Days of our lives"....





Testing the system for photo uploads....





Saturday, June 13, 2009