Still Settling In

Surprise! We've made a connection to Prairie Grass!

We're finally over jet lag problems and getting settled in. It looks like we'll be moving in to a 10th floor studio apartment sometime this week. It's small but will suffice for our stay. We're making some great discoveries: Pizza Hut and Subway across the street from where we work. Peter's TexMex Grill about a 10 minute walk from where we plan to live. We've found a couple of large stores that are similar to Walmart that seem to have just about everything we will need.

You've probably heard about all of the snow in China. Fortunately we only experienced record colds, no snow at all. We've been watching the China news stations and are glad that we're not stuck in the middle of all of that. The local people tell us that the government is doing a very good job of responding. Speaking of cold, that's the one thing that we were probably not prepared for. Today is the first day that we're not wearing our coats in the office. We bought a couple of small heaters, one for home and one for the office to blow some heat at our feet.

Tomorrow begins the New Year's celebration. From the amount of fireworks we've already heard it promises to be quite an event. New Year's is followed by the Spring Festival. Many people are going home for two weeks of visiting with family. We'll probably just go to work at the office for something different to do.