CRYSTAL AND ISABEL This is a weblog for Crystal Sun Zhao and Isabel Sun Zhao. As parents, we'd like to keep the records for them as much as we can.

Isabel and some of her classmates with the parents went for 扬州3日游 together. Kids are having a lot of fun during 3 days.

Dec 23: 扬州瘦西湖公园

Dec 24: 扬州茱萸湾风景区

On Dec 13, SCL school held a 4 schools’ girls soccor tournament. SCL school won the second place again. Congradulations!

In October, we went for different places. Crystal went to Hawaii with her school as an exchange student for 10 days. Crystal stays at Mei’s home. Many thanks for Mei family’s hospitality.

Isabel and Mom went to Singapre to have some fun. I went for a 5 days’ hiking whever there is a chance when I’m alone.

Also, on Nov. 16, I met some high school classmates after 27 years. They all look very well. 🙂

On Sep. 20 morning, Isabel attended SSSA 3km Cross Country Race. I attended for 5km race. It almost kills me. It’s too early for me. I finished around 32 minutes.

In August, I took the girls to Beijing.

August 16: We visited 北京首都博物馆.

August 17: 明十三陵 and Great Wall.

August 18: 颐和园 and 圆明园

August 19: 北京奥林匹克公园. In the night, we watched a show “How to train a dragon” with LiuGe.

August 20: 天安门 and 故宫. We didn’t find enough time to visit 故宫珍宝馆. But we will be back.

August 21: 中国国家博物馆

August 22: 人民英雄纪念碑, 天安门城楼 and 故宫珍宝馆.

In the night, we went to 德云社听相声.

August 23: 天坛公园 and 北海公园

On June 29, I took the girls to XiAn. Since we will move back to Canada soon, it’s the time to visit XiAn and Beijing.

June 29: We visited 西安碑林博物馆.

June 30: 华清池, 兵马俑 and 秦始皇帝陵.

At night, we also watched 长恨歌历史舞剧.

July 1: 陕西历史博物馆 and 大雁塔

July 2: 华山

July 3: We went for 泡温泉.

July 4: 乾陵, 唐永泰公主墓, 唐懿德太子墓 and 法门寺

July 5: 西安城墙. We walk a loop on 西安城墙. It took us 6 hours walking for 15KM. It was a very hot day. We drunk about 9 bottles of water during the walking.

July 6: We went for 泡温泉 again.

July 7: Back to Shanghai.

On June 27, 2014, SCL Primary School Class 2014 Graduation Ceremony was held at SCL school.

Crystal will graduate from Primary school this month. So, some students and parents agree to have a graduation trip together to 崇明岛. The kids have their own rooms instead of with their parents. Some kids watched the World cup all night without much sleep. Crystal slept only for about an hour, too excited.

On June 7th, Crystal, Isabel and their girls soccer team attended a 5 schools’ girls soccor tournament. They did pretty well and SCL1 won the second place in the tournament.

Following are a few events happened in May 2014.

First, Crystal is in Grade 5. She will grade from elementary school after one month. Many of her classmates will leave SCLS. Following is a picture of class 5(5).

On May 1st and 2nd, we went to 崇明 to have a short vocation.

On May 10th, Isabel attended Shanghai School Sports Association, 3km Cross Country Race.

On May 24th, both Crystal and Isabel attended Shanghai School Sports Association, Track & Field Meet.

On May 30th, SCLS School the 4th Art Festival was held at 上海大剧院.