We're back...

Well, no quarantine, thank goodness. We landed about 30 hours ago.

It's 3:00 am and I can't sleep, but that is normal.

Arriving here to our apartment was great when compared with our few days in a hotel when we first came in February. It was nice to have the space and know where everything is.

I thought I was the only person up, but I just heard Danny in the hallway... seems I'm not the only one who can't sleep!

August in Shanghai is very different from February -- it is hot, humid, and the first typhoon is 36 hours away. NOAA (since I can't read the Chinese weather sites) updated the track and shows the remnants of the eye passing directly over Hangzhou (where we visited in May). All it will need is a slight shift to the East, and the eye will pass over us.

I've lived through a typhoon (there was a cat 3 when I was in Hong Kong) -- they're not that bad. Just a lot of rain. So much is expected, in fact, that they have drained the retention ponds here and the paper says they have manned all of the flood gates to stop the storm surge...

(Danny has now joined me, and said "I can't get my sleep" -- I know the feeling.)

Stay tuned... this fall should be filled with all sorts of interesting opportunities and issues. The one we are most looking forward to is Danny starting preschool -- 1/2 of the instruction is in Mandarin.

Now, it's time to entertain an almost 4 year old at 3:30 am.