Jazz festival at the midway

 

 

 

 

 

Alfonso Ponticelli and Swing Gitan: Chicago's best gypsy jazz band

 

 

Ming Ming and Lily danced so hard that they both ended up with blisters, for they had no shoes and the dancing floor was pretty hot soaking in the autumn sun, 

Ming Ming at the Suzuki honors recital

Ming Ming's first recital, playing twinkle variation A all by herself.

museum and garden

school day off: I took Bella, Avi, Nourit and MM to the museum of Science and Industry.

 

experiment: how to make fire with gas

 

trying to attract a virtual butterfly to land on them

 

 

 

 

last garden harvest

Antoine pickling green tomatos

school field trip to an apple orchard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hyde Park Book Fair

Ming Ming performed in public for the first time, at the Hyde Park Book Fair.

 

 

 

 

 

Xiao Hu and Ming Ming

 

 

 

Moon Festival / 湖畔中秋

to celebrate the moon festival, the commune set out for the lake shore to make a camp fire, just to toast some marshmallows for the kiddies and to warm up for some moon-watching.

the Harry Potter gang
(seriously, some passersby inquired if there were a harry potter meeting at the lake shore)

the bright spot is the moon.
 it is a shame that my camera could not capture it, it was a beautiful full moon.

the fire was made

running around in a windy evening

quickly ran out of wood...
kids busy collecting twigs to add to the fire

some yummy toasty marshmallows plus Max's music

 

Jessica leading the kids for some adventurous wood picking  

fire getting smaller, kids getting sleepy, everyone getting cold... 

the music continued...

so did the fire

George keeping the fire ...
We spent a long time at the lake shore. An enjoyable and memorable moon festival
(except for the parking ticket waiting for us at the car)!