Like Mother like Daughter?

My mom finally made it to Shanghai! I feel like I've been waiting for this day for ... well months. :-)
I'm so excited that she's here. It's a little weird at first when you feel like you live in two different worlds that are so apart from each other and then one day they meet. It feels surreal. But it's very quickly becoming very natural.

I love showing people around our city. Especially to people who like to explore and who really enjoy new things. I also like to feed people. It's a great excuse to go to all my favorite eating spots. Plus, it's an extra bonus when people come and are impressed with my Chinese! That always makes me feel good. (Especially when all I say is "stop here, Thank you" to a taxi driver) hehe

Today was alot of fun. We went Tea shopping at my favorite tea shop. I've been going to this one tea shop for about a year now and I've been telling the lady I'm going to bring my mother. So today she finally got to meet my mom and we sat and drank tea with her for about an hour. It was so nice to be able to show my mom my little corner of the world and the great people I've met.

My mom has only been here a few days and she's already really good at Chinese (her pronunciation is impressive) AND I've been learning alot about myself. (apparently I'm alot more like my mom that I realized.) :-)
In fact, the first thing she said to me when she got off the plane was "you look just like I did when I was pregnant with you"
That made me happy. I just hope someday I can look as good as she does NOW after raising 4 kids.