Zhong Qiu Jie is to be with your family

That's what Katy said when we tried to hustle her home after Zhong Qiu Jie dinner with Uncle Bert, Auntie Pinky, Gabriel, Raphaella, and Auntie Pinky's family.
Cheeky monkey!

Katy really does love her family though.  She was thrilled to have the chance to bottle feed Raphaella.

Pinky and Bert hosted a fabulously extravagant lunch featuring rice wine

XO sauce from the Mandarin Oriental (yum!)

and yummy Shanghai hairy crabs!

It was a real treat and not something we will be able to have for a long time.  The season here is very  short and highly anticipated!  Katy tried it and loved it!  Luckily Uncle Bert had a lot of patience picking out the tasty morsels for Katy to eat!  She really loved the coral.

 Eventually, Katy picked up the process herself.

It's a very finicky process though and you have to supplement with other food.  You get exhausted way before you actually get full!  Luckily, Auntie Pinky had cooked some delicious Lomagai (lotus wrapped sticky rice) for us to eat with the XO sauce!

Gabriel was quite fond of the hairy crab himself, and Katy was happy to oblige.

After dinner, Katy discovered Haagen Dazs ice cream mooncakes!

After dinner, we rolled downstairs to the ICC lawn to play with the glow sticks, which the kids always really love!  Katy loves playing with Auntie Pinky's younger brother Bennett, who is great with the kids.  Pinky's Mom, sister Rachel and brother-in-law Roy were also there.

Katy loved making lots of glow stick jewellery.

And Katy loved it when Dada threw the glow sticks in the air and created our own free form light show!

Finally, we left ICC, and returned home to DB.  We wanted to spend a little bit of time with our DB friends on the beach.  It's a big event in DB and this year it was particularly lovely as it was so cool.  The beach was covered completely in glow sticks when we arrived!

Katy played with Jessie, and we chatted with our friends the McCanns as the beach slowly emptied and tired parents brought tired kids home.  It was a lovely walk home for us, stopping to chat with friends and neighbours, including Dr Winnie Siu.  We will really miss our friends and family, and even our acquaintances.  It's a wonderful feeling to be part of a community like this on an evening like this when everyone comes together!