Shanghai

There has been a huge amount of time between my last post and this one....but i's not ALL my fault! China blocks many sites with the "Great Firewall", including blogspot, Flickr, etc. We are living in Shanghai, China now. Matt and I both LOVE it, although it has been an extremely rocky road getting here and and even more rocky road since we have been here. I think I have basically been sick since I got here. I never used to get food poisoning, but now I seem to permanently have it. I got sick a few days after I arrived here, and it has continued in a less severe form...it could also be an MS flare up OR swine flu. Who knows....

Another obstacle was Matt's poorly-timed 2.5 week business trip back to Boston only a few weeks after we got here. What's up with that??? Luckily, I am fairly outgoing (or extremely desperate?) and managed to meet friends and get myself settled while he was gone.

Right now we are in Hong Kong getting our visas settled. It's nice to be back here, but I can honestly say I am very happy we are living in Shanghai rather than Hong Kong. There is a more diverse group of foreigners living here, and the night life is more interesting and fun...there are lots of creative people here (not just rich people).


Here are some pictures of our apartment:

The lovely entrance


The hallway to our apartment


The kitchen




Probably the nicest closet I will ever have


Our indoor "patio"

The bathroom


There are a lot more pictures on Flickr!