Welcome Grandma and Grandpa Lebel!

Well Grandma and Grandpa made it and I've was totally impressed how they made it through jet lag with minimal problems! I'm usually physically sick the second day, but my parents are like energizer bunnies and kept going and going. Finn and I had to take a break today with Grandma so we could take a nap while Grandpa took the driver to the Shanghai World Financial Center - which boasts (for now) the highest observation deck for people to go to - 100 stories - at least until the building in Dubai gets finished.

We did some bargaining madness yesterday - so I impressed them with my Chinese language and bargaining skills - well not really since my bargaining skills have gone in the pooper - but we had fun and Dad (aka Clark W Griswald) got some great pictures.

Still on tap for the rest of the week - a walk along The Bund, a trip to ZhouZhong (a water town) and maybe a Confucious temple. It is crazy that I waited 2 years and 3 months to finally be a tourist in this town.

In the meantime our "stuff" is on its way to Osaka, Japan. The apartment is empty - so sad. We came to Shanghai with 13 boxes and a guitar and I think Will said the movers packed up about 100 boxes to ship out! Good grief. I think at least 50 have some link to Finn - I guess we think he needs lots of stuff!

Tomorrow I'm off to my last get together with my little mini-moms group - we have all delivered our babies and so hopefully we will get some great group shots and promises to stay in touch. Some of us will some of us won't I'm sure - but I told them if any of our kids show up on my doorstep in 16 years, we'll take them! So Finn will have the same opportunity - we have lined up: Germany, Denmark, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Australia, and have plenty of stops across the USA.