One of the interesting things about Shanghai is the laundry. Everywhere you go in the city you will see laundry hanging out the windows of apartments. We have seen some very creative clothes lines. You will even see laundry hanging over iron fences and in the trees in the middle of downtown. We think we have discovered why this is such a common thing. Tim put a load of laundry in the dryer this morning before he left for work. This evening when I came back to the apartment the clothes were still very wet. Apparently the dryers here are really just “tumblers”. A lady told me today that she finally gave up trying to use their dryer and joined the rest of Shanghai in their environmentally friendly drying methods. So.....tonight the Spofford laundry is also hanging on the balcony of our apartment.