Visit to Shekou

Aldie in his new Sack n' seat portable chair!

After a long first week settling in, we headed south to Shekou for brunch, Al fresco by the ocean ish. Shekou is the expat area of the city, and also where one ferry departs to HK.
We ate at Mama's,  open air bacon and pancakes for T(78rmb) and a croissandwich with salmon and home fries (42) and a caramel roll (25). It was in a cool area of restaurants mostly western with a large open plaza like Santa Monica. At the end of the plaza was a small cruise ship. It was a hotel and restaurant, with palm trees on its open deck. Hotel Rooms began at around 500rmb. We boarded the shop only to find it was docked in a teeny body of water,  and we still a ways from the actual ocean. Funny thing was that there was a whole mess  of people on the ship deck taking photos and sitting next smoking,  then a lady with a no came up and yelled at us to all get of the ship!  As we made out way down,  more groups of people were trying to board the ship. It's a pretty cool idea and seemed to be in partnership with Paulaner.

We also got to try out Alden's new fabric chair- which was awesome! He is grabbing and reaching for everything, so it was relief to be able to eat together without juggling him back and forth, except that he kept chucking his toys on the floor. He can throw surprisingly far. Ok - its not really throwing, but he can wave his arms a great deal and release his grip at the same time = toy across the room. But he's not quite aware and sit there confused... like, "Where did my toy go??"

The char is easy to use. Slide it on the back, buckle around the seat (so he can't stand up and pop it off the back) and then buckle the strap under his armpits through upper loops which is an upwards seatbelt if you will. The shoulder straps were a bit big for him- as you can see, his 6 month little arms can't quite reach around the straps to hold things with both hands.