How to celebrate a first birthday - the original birthday - the one that shows the way for all other birthdays to follow (well, at least until your mid-twenties ;))? This was the conundrum that I faced. In an apartment that has no oven (I had contemplated a microwave mug-cake - but no flour, raising medium and dodgy milk...) and where cake is a relatively novel concept, I was sure that Sebastien would fall prey to "second child syndrome".
Alex had recently been asking for some "American pizza - not Chinese pizza" as we'd sampled something that might be known as a savoury kind of pseudo-pizza/bun/thingy. So with that as a guide, we headed out to one of the three Pizza Huts in town - the closest one which also happens to be on the 24th floor of a harbour building looking out over the harbour and city.
If we'd known enough Mandarin, we might have even been able to ask for a window seat...but we will save that for another time.
First, daddy and the birthday boy - check out that smile!
Then Mummy and the kids.
We ordered the much anticipated pizza (I must admit that I was anticipating it just as much) so Sebastien managed parts of several slices: the birthday boy with his slice of pizza
Alex didn't go for it nearly as much as we thought she would - in hindsight we think that the stuffed crust was too much cheese, certainly for us it was. Next time we'll stick with the thin crust.
The birthday cake that I found just off of Zhongshan Lu at a bakery - just the right size. Plus I got a "Hello Kitty" cookie thing filled with cream that I thought Sebastien might prefer, though Alex thought it was pretty good too.
Ready to blow out the candle (with a little bit of help - naturally).
We had been a mini sensation as the only laowai in the place (until right at the end). Leaving at the end - standing just inside the door waiting for the elevator.
One thing about Pizza Hut here is that a visit to the salad bar is a "one time affair" only - and consequently you get:
This was early in the construction phase - unfortunately I was otherwise occupied by the birthday boy and his sister to capture the ediface that resulted from this effort - quite extraordinary! But if you check out the web, you can see other results such as this one, this one, or even this one.
So we headed home and awaited Tuesday for "the real deal".
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Thanks for sharing all of these birthday happenings with us and now only 7 more days to go before we have you all in our arms. Can't but just havr ot wait!!!
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