Happy Birthday, Kate!

I haven't posted in a while and I only have a minute today to post but I needed to post a Happy Birthday to Kate! She turned 3 on December 16 and is as spunky as ever. Case in point...at her birthday party, there were 9 of us encouraging her to blow out her candle, telling her how to blow it out, showing her, etc. and her honest response was, "blow the candle out yourself." Nice, huh! She is a girl that doesn't hold back words on what she is thinking! She gives John and I a run for our money, that is for sure! But she is definitely a blessing and so fun and full of life and spunk...there are many days when I have to repeat that blessing part to myself many times as a reminder!! :)

We are actually in the United States right now...South Texas to be exact. Long before we knew we were moving to China, John and I had reserved a vacation package at Disneyworld for in December. The girls have been dying to go so once we moved we looked at John's frequent flier miles and lo and behold we had enough miles to fly us all back to the States for free (that's what 4 years of John traveling all over the world will do for us!) So we booked our tickets to come back to the US. We were in Iowa for a few shorts days then off to Florida for a week at Disneyworld, which was great fun but exhausting to say the least! Now we are in South Texas and will be here until the day after Christmas then we fly back to Shanghai.

It has been great to be back for a while but the first part was very busy so it's nice to kind of relax for a bit here in Texas before we head back. I have all kinds of observations about things having been gone for 6 months and then seeing them now but who knows if I will ever have time to blog about them. One thing is for sure...Leah and I LOVE Target and miss it so much!! We have spent many times in there just wandering around looking at everything. It's funny what one misses! :)

Life as usual...

Well, last week was another good week. It was the end of the "term" for Leah and Lauren's dance classes so the parents got to watch the class as a sort of open house event.

Leah is in ballet and absolutely loves it. I really think she was born to be a ballerina as she is very graceful and thoughtful in her movements and very serious with her dance. I couldn't even get a smile out of her while she was "performing"! Here are a couple of Leah's pics.



Lauren is in tap this year and seems to enjoy it. Funny story - the first week she went in and tried ballet with Leah. When she came out I asked, "how was it?" Leah said, "great, wonderful, I love it." Lauren said, "Mom, that was one really long class and there wasn't much action!" So we looked at the schedule and I saw that there was a tap class. She thought this would be much more up her alley. After the trial class, she was hooked...I mean what could be better for an active 5 year old than to give her shoes that make loads of noise and ask her to see just how much noise she can actually make with them! :) So here she is strutting her tap stuff! Notice the look of concentration in the first picture!

Kate is too young for any dance class but she does go to an art class once a week that she really loves. Here she is sporting her latest creation! I know I am biased but really, how cute is she! :)

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! We have just finished up a fun Halloween night and I thought I would post a few pictures for everyone to see. It is certainly a notable Halloween...not because we are in Shanghai but because this is the first year in 5 years that I do not have a single princess trick or treating! Amazing really!

Leah was Tigress from Kung Fu Panda. Fang actually put all the decorations on Leah's shirt. I showed her a picture of Tigress and gave her a solid red tank top and she brought back this amazing shirt for Leah to wear. Have I mentioned how blessed we are here!
Lauren was an Egyptian Princess - she made the head dress and cape herself.

And Kate was June from the Little Einsteins (admittedly Kate's costume is a little lame as we could not find a solid purple dress anywhere so we had to settle for the closest purple dress we could find in the closet. Luckily at 2 she doesn't really care that much!)

Our complex organized it's first trick or treat ever this year and it was great fun. The management office as well as the girl arranging it expected a few houses to participate. Amazingly, there were 85 houses handing out treats and over 150 kids trick or treating. I had absolutely no idea that there were so many kids in our complex. The girls had a great time running from door to door. We made friends with a little girl down the street from us and she went with us along with the other 2 Deere families here. Kate was content to sit in the stroller most of the time. It was pretty funny because I would ask her if she would like to go up to a house and she would look over at the house and then decide - sometimes yes, most times no. I'm not sure what it was about some of the houses that enticed her enough to get out of the comfy stroller to go get treats.

Speaking of treats...now trick or treating in China brings a whole new set of treats that we have never seen before! The girls had a great time going through their bags checking out all the treats. Probably the highlights were someone gave us little tiny apples, someone gave them a handful of peanuts in the shell and LOADS of hard candies. Very little chocolate!

One more of the whole crew...

From Trick or Treat

Hope you all have a great time trick or treating and that you get more treats than tricks!

Out and about

Here we are...quite a site riding around the streets of Shanghai. Leah and Lauren have gotten really great at navigating around all the bikes, scooters, cars and motorcycles. We had a fun day today and I'm so proud of how great the girls are doing.

Hangzhou - Shanghai's Garden...

Well, it is Saturday night and we just got back from another short weekend trip. This time we went to Hangzhou - a two hour drive South of Shanghai. It is a beautiful and famous city in China and the place that all the Shanghainese people go for weekend trips. Hence the name, Shanghai's Garden. In the midst of Hangzhou is West Lake which is Hangzhou's main attraction.

So Leo picked us up on Friday and we started our trip. Fortunately for us, the highway traffic was MUCH better for this trip and we were in Hangzhou in a little less than 2 hours. After getting checked into the hotel, we found a really authentic Chinese place to eat...Papa John's! After pizza, we were off to explore West Lake. It is this beautiful lake that has lots of old bridges, pagodas, walking paths, etc. all around it. We walked one of the causeways that cuts across the lake and enjoyed just being outside in the fresh air. John had Kate in a backpack on him and boy, did he get lots of stares! I mean, we get lots of stares and gawking anyway but put a Chinese baby in a cool looking backpack on the back of a big, strong American man and you have the makings of a small side show. Leo said that you would think we were Superstars the way people stop and look at us. We like to do little experiments. For example, f Leo walks ahead of us holding the hand of Lauren and Leah no one even notices them. If they come back and hold our hand and walk with us...instant show! It can be kind of funny or mildly annoying depending on what mood we are in! :)

Someone gawking so much so that he is video taping us - so John decided to return the favor and photograph him! And as I now think about it...we have really "one upped him" by putting him on the world wide web! :)

After taking in all the beauty of West Lake, it was back to the hotel to freshen up and then a quick 5 minute walk to dinner. We ordered a host of delicious things and enjoyed a great dinner. There was a night market another 5 minute walk from the hotel that we walked to. It was great. It's a regular street during the day but at night it transforms into a closed off pedestrian street filled with every kind of anything you could want. It is definitely for the locals as I'm pretty sure we were the only "foreigners" there. "Foreigners" is what we are so lovingly referred to as by Leo and most of the Chinese! It was lots of fun and even Lauren got into the spirit and bargained in Chinese (with Dad's help) to get a hair pretty that she wanted. The vendor got a kick out of Lauren telling him "tai gui le" which means too expensive!

This morning we woke up and went to a Buddhist temple in Hangzhou. The best part about the temple is that it was up on the mountains that surround West Lake and a really beautiful drive to get to it. The grounds were very beautiful as well with tons of trees and bamboo growing everywhere. In the midst of the grounds is a mountain that has tons of cave-type areas that have been carved with all kinds of pictures. The earliest carvings date back to 951 AD so it was very cool to look at them. The girls loved climbing around the rocks and caves and Kate was happy to be carried in the backpack. We didn't actually go into the Temple because there was another admission price to get into it. We had already paid $20 to get into the grounds so I didn't want to pay more just to get inside the temple...besides that, it actually makes me sad to see the people bowing, praying, etc. to this statue that really can't do anything for them. So we opted to just enjoy the grounds and then head out.

Leo hanging with the big girls on the temple grounds!

The hillsides filled with tea bushes.

Leo then took us to a typical Hangzhou Farmers lunch at an outdoor restaurant near the temple. The whole area around West Lake and Hangzhou is famous for their tea-Long Jing tea (or something like that). It's a green tea and very delicious. All along the road going from the temple to where the restaurant was the hillsides was full of tea bushes. It was really amazing. So, as you know by now, I'm squeamish when it comes to eating at random places but Leo assured me once again that this place we were going to was good so we sat down to have the specialty, Beggars Chicken, and a ton of other things, including Lauren's favorite - shrimp. The chicken came out in a big bowl simmering in yummy broth. It was really delicious but interesting at first because when I say the chicken came out - I mean the WHOLE chicken...neck, head, feet, everything!

Leah thought it was a hoot that the chicken head was just sitting right there on a plate, which is funny because Leah is the most squeamish of all the girls. Here she is giving it a drink of her apple juice.

After finishing most of the chicken they took the bones out of the broth, added rice to it and cooked it some more. The rice cooked in that broth was absolutely delicious! Lauren sat happily peeling and eating her little baby shrimps and wasn't even bothered by the fact that she had to pull the heads off first before peeling and eating. Have I mentioned what troopers we have for daughters! After a long lunch, we got back in the car and headed back home for Shanghai.

It was such a fun quick trip and neat to see one of China's famous cities. If you want to see more photos of the trip you can click on the album below.

10-2008

Our terracotta warrior

Jamie and Micah - here is the picture of John's new terracotta warrior you wanted to see. He is about 12" tall. John actually wants the life size version of it...no, I'm not kidding, so this is a slight compromise. I say slight because I'm pretty sure we will end up with the life size version before we leave China because John is very determined to bring one home. He thinks it would be good for scaring off potential suitors when the girls are older (you know, like 25!) This is the archer but there are tons of different ones. John likes this one best because he says that the warrior is actually kneeling before the King of Kings.

Lots to tell..

Well, I, of course, meant to post many times in the last week but am just now getting it done. To start with, my beloved, John, celebrated his 40th birthday last week. Can you believe it? I certainly couldn't and we had loads of fun teasing him about his gray hair and his "old age". Of course, I couldn't tease him too much since I'm not too terribly far off!For his birthday, Fang was very sweet and made a very traditional birthday lunch. She made noodle soup with very long noodles to wish him a long life and several other really yummy things. Leo explained to us that the Chinese really don't do much for birthdays each year but the "10's" are the big ones so 10, 20, 30, etc. John was showered with gifts - a Terracotta warrior statue that he had been wanting from me, a painting of the "Lauren" tower from the girls (this is actually the Oriental Pearl Tower but because Lauren loves it so much our family calls it the Lauren tower), a beautiful tea tray from Leo (we had the tea set from John's travels but didn't have the tea tray which is needed to serve tea the traditional Chinese way...which we now know:)! ) and a beautiful drawing of Chinese birds from Fang. So all in all it was a great day!
This week is a national holiday week in China - the equivalent of our 4th of July except that they take a whole week off. So on Monday, we had Leo take us to Suzhou, a beautiful city about an hour and a half from Shanghai. Well, it would be an hour and a half, if it wasn't the first day of the holiday with what seemed like all 20 million Shanghai people trying to leave the city...yeah, we didn't really take that into consideration when we planned our day! So it took us about 3 hours with all the traffic to get there but fortunately the girls were entertained with Kung Fu Panda (already on DVD here - amazing, huh! Ha!) and a variety of other movies. John was great because he didn't have to drive and I was happy to just be "going somewhere" for the day. Once we got to Suzhou, we had lunch at a dumpling restaurant that I have to say, if Leo hadn't been with us, I'm sure I would not have eaten there. But since he said it looked fine and I'm trying to be adventurous, we went in and ate. To my surprise, Kate and I had wonton soup and it was actually very good! The girls, John and Leo had noodles which they all said were good. The place was less than clean but I just tried to block it all out and when I prayed over my lunch, I literally prayed, "Lord, please keep us from getting deathly ill!" :) And too my surprise, no one got sick and everyone enjoyed their lunch...shows what I know!
From there we went to see the Leaning Tower of China. Well, I don't remember what the real name of it is but it's literally a leaning tower in the midst of a beautiful park. We hiked all around it and thoroughly enjoyed our day. Leo went with us through the park and he was so amazed at ALL the stares we get and all the comments. I'm starting not to notice it as much which is good. The ones that really crack us up though are the older people that literally stop in their tracks and stare at us the entire time we walk by even turning around to continue looking at us! I don't know if the girls notice much or not - they haven't said if they do. We do on a very rare occasion get scowling looks from some so we try to shield the girls from those as much as possible. After the park, we shopped through some little alleyway stores and had a great time. I got a very cool duvet that is filled with silk (instead of say, goose down) for our king size bed for $35! You gotta love that! Another guy later down the way, tried to sell us a "better" quality one but all we were thinking was, "hey - it fits, it's warm, it seems like it will do what we want it to do so we're good!" After driving around Suzhou to see a bit more of it, we headed home. It was a fun day and it felt great to just go somewhere different even if the traffic was terrible!
Last night, we got to see a huge fireworks display for the holiday right from the balcony off of my and John's room. Century Park (very close to where we live) was having a big celebration and it was fun to get to watch them. I will say that it is by far the best and longest fireworks show I have ever seen. It lasted for almost an hour and was amazing. John said, "I bet if it's on TV it's even more amazing!" Ha! The big girls watched for a while but then headed off to play Wii with Dad so Kate and I sat and watched the rest of it by ourselves and loved it!

I have a lot of pictures from this past week so I will upload some to this blog but for those of you who want to see more (OK, we realize it's probably only our parents and that's OK!), I'm uploading a bunch more to our Picasa album that you can view by clicking here, Our online album

or clicking on the album below:

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9-2008

Church

Well, here is a little clip of about 500 people from all over the world praising God together at the church we attended today. I'm not sure if the video clip will come through on the email- it may just be online on the blog. Also not sure of the quality but we'll see.

Have a blessed Sunday.

A city scene

Just thought I would share a photo of what I saw today because it is so typical here. I always see men sitting around playing a game, sometimes it is Ma Jiang but a lot of times it is cards. So I asked Leo today what game it is - he said "poker". Here I was thinking it was some cool Chinese game and it is just poker. But pretty funny anyway because there is always a crowd around watching.

So that is little sample of what I see in a day.

PS: OK, just a note to add - John just told me that this Poker is actually totally different than what would be played in the US. He had Leo explain it to him. So I guess Poker is just the generic term used for this type of cards.

Another PS: I love being able to take pictures and send blog entries from my phone! :)

A picture is worth...

Since that is how the saying goes and I don't have much time I am going to upload some photos for y'all to see.

Yesterday was the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival here in China. It is an official holiday here and actually kind of a big deal. Not nearly as big as Chinese New Year but still an important family holiday. Families gather together to have a feast and spend time together. We asked Leo what he did and he said his family ate dinner together and then played Mah Jong. He actually has an older sister (rare for most Chinese families) so the feast includes Leo, his mom & dad, his sister, her husband and their daughter. It sounds a bit like our Thanksgiving, actually.

Moon Cakes are a very big part of this tradition. They are little cakes that are filled with some kind of paste - usually sweet. I have had them several times before but have never really cared for them. However, Fang brought us some as a gift from a place here in Shanghai that Leo told us is famous for making them. They were delicious! There are many different fillings in the Moon Cake but the one I liked best tasted almost like a pecan pie just without the pecans!

So we took some pictures of our Moon Cakes to share with y'all!

This box of Moon Cakes is actually one that the company John works with gave us. Some of them were OK - but there were some with beef filling. I didn't even try them because lets just say, even John had a difficult time liking them and that is unusual! :)

This is a picture of our typical lunch that Fang prepares for us. This day we had yummy noodles (they are Leah's favorite and she eats more than any of us!), broccoli, mushrooms and carrots. Some days she will cook chicken to go with it. It is really so simple but so completely great!

Here are a couple of our girls enjoying their lunch in the first picture and dinner in the second picture. Notice our very cool round dinner table - it is a very traditional style Chinese table - round with a lazy susan in the middle. I love it.


OK - that is my thousand words in pictures. I'm off to bed now!

Kate is on the move.

Today Kate learns to drive. Well, really it was more of trying to keep Kate occupied while we waited for John to finish in the store.

Today is Mid Autumn Festival so I will post more about that later.

The girls

I am trying out sending a picture to the blog on my phone. We'll see if it worked.

We are finally unpacked!

Well, the movers came one week ago today and I can gladly say that every box is unpacked, except one that has a ton of garage junk in it! The delivery guys unpacked some of the boxes for us that helped. I also have an ayi now who helped me unpack the kitchen things. In China, you can hire a woman to come to your house and help you clean, cook, etc. and she is called an ayi. It is very inexpensive to have this kind of help here and I am so thankful to have found a good one and to have one! A person I met online was moving to Singapore and trying to find a new family for her ayi so the rest is, as they say, history. Our Ayi, Fang, is great. She is very helpful and makes us wonderful Chinese dinners 3 times a week. Yes, indeed, I am getting spoiled. For those that don't know me well, I hate to cook so to have someone who cooks for our family is a HUGE blessing to me! It did feel a little odd at first but was certainly easy for me to get used to! :) The meals she cooks for us are simple Chinese dishes but they are really good. And, frankly, if I don't have to cook them so I really don't care what's for dinner? The girls are great at eating what is put in front of them so every one is content with the meals that are coming out of the kitchen. I have pictures of a meal she cooked for us but they are on my camera and at the moment I cannot find my adapter to get them to the computer...such is life in a house that is unpacked but still completely unorganized! :) I'll post them later!

Back to the house - we are so glad to have our familiar things around us. It certainly makes this house feel much more like our home! This house is so different than anything we would have in the US so it is nice to at least have it feel like home with our stuff! But I was absolutely reminded of our excess as things were coming out of the boxes. For instance, why do I have 8 different knives that all do the exact same thing - cut! Yes, maybe one cuts something better than another but really at the end of the day, they all cut. And frankly, I have lived the last 2 months with only one knife and we have been just fine! I have probably 20 more examples of that exact same thing but I won't bore you with them. As Fang was helping me unpack the kitchen, I was just really amazed at what all I thought was SO necessary to bring with us. Fang, of course, was looking at it all in utter amazement. In American, we all have so much! I think it is both a blessing and a curse!

On another note, both Leah and Lauren have now learned to ride their bikes with no training wheels. Lauren has been asking us for months to teach her to ride with no training wheels but with the move, it has been a very low priority. So on Saturday, John took her out and got her going on it. Leah still had training wheels also because, frankly, she is our very cautious child and riding without training wheels just seemed way to "dangerous" to her! :) But not to be out done by her sister, she took the plunge also. So by the end of the day Saturday, Leah was riding a two wheel bike all by herself with little problem. By Sunday, Lauren had gotten the hang of it as well. So now we have 2 very big girls that can ride their bikes without training wheels. It was funny though because our Chinese neighbors (2 doors down) were outside with their 2 year old daughter and they thought it was so funny, hearing these crazy Americans yelling, "pedal, pedal, pedal." It seems we always make quite a spectacle.


On Sunday, I bought the coolest bike ever for me. It is one that would NEVER be sold in the US because of all the product liability lawsuits but I think it is great. Here's a picture so you can see it.
Yep, you got it - it has a seat and handle bars for me and a seat and handle bars for Kate (or Leah or Lauren, for that matter). It is so fun and Kate loves riding on it with me. By the way, if you are looking at this picture and judging me because she is without a helmet, please know that I really do always make her wear her helmet. :) This was the very first ride on the bike so it was without a helmet or even shoes for that matter! But it was very short and then back to garage to get shoes and a helmet! It is great fun though to be able to go for bike rides!

We also got started on school this week. Leah and Lauren were eager to start. We got through the first 3 days with little problem. Kate is actually doing a surpisingly good job of keeping herself entertained for most of it. She spends most of the time in the room with us but is content to read her books, do her puzzles, etc. So far so good!
That is all for now. As always, it turns out to be much to long!

Tomorrow is the big day!

Well, I meant to post this weekend and I just got busy and didn't get it done. So now I will post a very short note because we found out late this afternoon that our shipment comes tomorrow! We had been told last week that it would come on this past Saturday so I had my hopes all up for that. Well, on Friday, John called to check on it and were told that our container was scheduled for customs inspection today (Monday). That was a huge bummer as we were very much looking forward to getting our stuff this weekend. When they told us inspection on Monday we figured with the way things work in China it would probably be Friday before the container would actually be delivered. So with that thought, John scheduled a trip to Xuzhou for work leaving this morning at 6:30 am and coming back on Wednesday. He arrived in Xuzhou around lunch (took the train) and this afternoon around 3 they called him to say that our container cleared customs and would be delivered tomorrow morning at 10 am!!! Shock of all shock...something has actually gone faster than we expected.

John called me to tell me the good news. John's a pretty smart guy and without me having to say a word, he said, "I'm taking the midnight train home tonight and will be back at the train station at 7am." As much as I hate that he will have to ride in a "soft sleeper" train over night to get home, there is just NO WAY I want to deal with a 40 foot container full of stuff, 3 children, who knows how many Chinese workers, etc., etc. So, my beloved is coming home quickly to help with the arrival of the container!

Because the container is coming tomorrow I have loads to do...things that I have procrastinated on and now have no choice but to get it done quickly before the barrage of boxes appear. I will say quickly though that we had a good week last week. We visited the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum and it was really cool! I'm telling y'all - you need to come visit Shanghai! There is so much cool stuff to see and do here!

Okay, I'm off to get things done!

The week in review!

Well, it has been about 10 days since I last posted and we have had all kinds of things go on. It's funny...when things happen I think, "oh, I need to blog about this" and inevitably I don't get around to it so I'm left 10 days later wondering what we have been up to. But here are some of the highlights.

We are getting closer to moving into our new house. A lot of the furniture that we ordered was delivered today, including a dining table, our bed, couch and chairs so staying here now will be much easier! It is a possible that our US goods might be delivered on Saturday but as John and I have learned to say, "this is China" so you just never know until the truck pulls up in front of the house on Saturday. I do mean that "this is China" comment in a good-hearted kind of way. They do things so differently here and we are trying our best to role with the punches. We have learned a new Chinese word though - ma fan - which means SO complicated. It seems much of what we are needing/wanting to do is ma fan! Our driver, Leo, says everything in China is ma fan. We are starting to believe him!

Here are some of the recap moments of the week that were memorable to us:

1) We went out to dinner last night. John ordered a bunch of yummy stuff and the food arrived. We served up everybody - mostly noodles and beef for the girls. Lauren is sitting at the table and all the sudden bursts into tears. I look at her and say, "oh honey, what is wrong?" She mutters out, "everyone is eating and I can't pick up these noodles with the rice spoon or my chopsticks!" So poor kid, there were no forks in this restaurant and after serving everyone, I was busy feeding Kate with my chopsticks and eating, Leah & John were eating with their chopsticks but poor Mei Mei (Lauren's nickname) was starving and unable to eat. I fed her for a bit until John got her noodles chopped up so she could eat them with her spoon - then she was fine! The whole thing really made John and I kind of laugh because Lauren is our most flexible, role with the punches kind of kid but she finally had had enough! By golly, she wanted to eat! I told Leo, our driver, the story and he said, "oh, I will teach Mei Mei to eat!" So here is a picture of him teaching Lauren to eat with chopsticks. Have I mentioned how completely fabulous Leo is and such a huge help for our family! Here is a picture of him teaching Lauren!
2) We went to the Shanghai Aquarium and had a great time. They claim to have the world's longest tunnel where the fish are all around you. I have no idea if it really is the longest but it was very cool! The girls said they felt like mermaids. The funniest time came though when we "entered" the Shark tank and all 3 girls squealed as if they were going to be eaten soon! I do have to give it to them though - some of the sharks were definitely scary looking!

(us going through the tunnel)

3) At a shopping plaza not far from our house (about 20 minute walk) there is, of all things, a Cafe DuMonde restaurant (of New Orleans fame) and they serve the best western breakfast! So our new tradition is to get up on Sunday mornings (church is in the afternoons here - weird schedule but again - we're rolling with the punches!) and walk to Cafe DuMonde for a wonderful breakfast! We did it last week and it was great fun and delicious!

4) And last but not least, I have been struck many times in the past couple of weeks how difficult some aspects of this move are...everything is SO different here that everything seems hard sometimes. Simple chores like going to the grocery store end up being tricky and things that admittedly are more challenging to do in the US are so hard to do here that it makes my head spin! So as I was thinking on how difficult things were on a given day, God gently reminded me that what I am going through now may seem hard but in light of so much else it really isn't. I know people who have buried their children, who are fighting a losing battle with cancer, who have lost their jobs and the list goes on and on - those are difficult things! What we are experiencing now may be a challenge but really it is such a blessing that God has given our family! I was so glad to be given that new perspective and it truly has helped make the "ma fan" moments in China so much easier to go through.

So there you have a recap of our last few days. These posts always get so long so thanks for hanging in there with me...those of you that are still reading! :)

OK - I forgot I had these pictures so I just had to add them in:
This is the grocery store on a Saturday morning. I'm sure it doesn't look that bad but trust me it is like going to Walmart on Christmas Eve.

Is this the pet store? Oh, that's right - this is the grocery store and it's whats for dinner!
Mmm, good eats!

John & Kate surveying the fish heads! No - we did not buy any! But if you look closely in the basket there is a $6 bag of Tostitos because we have some people here that are craving nachos!