We received our shipment from the US yesterday and it only took the movers 1 1/2 hours to deliver, unpack, and take away the empty boxes. It is so nice to have a few familiar things from home. Tim took today off from work and spent the day with me at the apartment. All day we had workers in and out of the apartment to fix, clean, repair, and deliver things. Our dryer was installed above the washing machine. It is very "cute" and will hold about 3 pairs of socks at one time. Hopefully this one will work better than the one in our temporary apartment.

We discovered yesterday that we do not have a dishwasher. Somehow we missed this detail when we were looking for a residence. Most of the other homes we looked at had dishwashers so I guess it never occurred to us to look for this appliance. Oh....well....I told Abi that is why we had her. She was not amused. :)

Before we left the US we purchased three memory foam mattress pads. The beds that we have experienced in Shanghai are very hard so we thought this would be a great idea. The movers offered to open these and put them on the beds for us. This was the hardest job they had all day. The mattress pads are compressed to fit in a small box. When you open the box you are supposed to unfold them and let them expand over a 24 hour period. Unfolding them was the real challenge. It took two workers and myself to unfold them; each of us pulling as hard as we could to peel the folds apart. None of us could understand a word the other was say but we just kept talking and pulling and talking and eventually got the job done.

Today was a zero bridge day. We could hardly see the ground through the fog. Tim put his telescope together this afternoon and it was very exciting to see the fog close-up. He was not amused. Do you think it was something I said???