Robby's mom flew over from Germany and brought us lots of gifts. One large, hard-covered suitcase had nothing but goodies from Frankfurt: 6 bags of muesli, chocolate with hazelnut (our favorite), marzipan, delicious traditional German Christmas cookies, olive oil, a bottle of kids' carbonated drink called "Robby's bubble", bedding for the baby, etc. It was so overwhelming!
Ma only spent 3 days with us. We took her for Indian food (pani puri, mmm), sushi, Mexican, and a big American breakfast. We also saw the Globe Theater from England perform Shakespeare's Love's Labour Lost at Santa Monica College. We helped her buy a Macbook and took her to frolic in the lovely aisles of Target. We also had Shanghai-nese dim sum with my parents. It was a wonderful weekend. 
Then, we had a hectic Thanksgiving weekend that involved a seven-hour drive up to San Francisco. It usually takes 5 hours. We thought we were clever to leave on Tuesday, but we left our house at 4pm & hit traffic on the 405 through West LA. Not fun.
Nonetheless, visiting family is always a blast. Tiring, but fun. My oldest sister gave birth to a set of cute girl twins on Wednesday. We participated in a birthday dinner and birthday party for my four-year-old niece. Robby watched Ninja Assassin. We had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner with 13 family members, including an auntie who was visiting from Beijing whom I hadn't seen in six years.
We spent another seven hours driving down to Los Angeles on Sunday night (with a million other travelers). It feels good to be home with our fish Practice Three.
Time to buckle down and finish these two terms papers. They're due next Tuesday, and my fall semester at USC will be over! Now, if I could only finish these papers...
P.S. Baby kicks all the time.
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