On this day of our trip we went with my friend Malisa, her husband Andrew (he's a Talbot student), and their 2 beautiful girls, Serena (Lila's age) and Katherine (7 months old) to Chinatown. Malisa grew up in Chinatown so she was very familiar with everything and it was wonderful to be able to spend time with her.
We went for dim sum which is this awesome brunch-like meal where the servers come around with rolling metal carts and you can choose whatever plates you want from the carts.
We were able to try lots of different kinds of Chinese food. Malisa speaks Chinese so she was able to converse with the servers a bit to find out what they had.
Then we walked around the neighborhood and looked at all of the fresh produce along the streets, shopped at a few shops, and got a treat from a Chinese bakery.
We were able to go to a fortune cookie making factory which was really more like a sweat shop. That little old lady in the background sits there folding fortune cookies all day! They charged me 50 cents just for taking a picture. They did pass out free samples though.
That evening I took the kids to the Aquarium of the Bay. Their sea nettles were really impressive.
The kids got these shark hats.
The Aquarium of the Bay is right next to Pier 39 so we got to see the Christmas tree there.
These pictures got a bit jumbled up. While we were in Chinatown, I let each kid pick something $5 or under as a souvenir. Brad chose this sword.
Sky chose this chirping bird in a cage. Hopefully the sword and the bird don't meet... Lila chose some weird looking purple dinosaur thing.
Here is Sky at the dim sum restaurant in front of some of the rolling carts.
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