There has been no time for blogging over the past few days. Let me do a "short" update and then I will fill in with pictures over the next few days.

We came home from Beijing one day early because of the storm that is on it's way to Shanghai. I was worried that we would not be able to get out of Beijing because we were scheduled to fly back at the peak of the storm. So....we got on a plane late last night and arrived at our apartment this morning at 12:30am. All the schools are closed today and some people have been evacuated from ships and the harbor areas. It is about 8:00am and it looks very calm outside. I am not sure if this is "the calm before the storm" or if the storm is going to miss us.