Home looks very good to us! All my plants survived the month of August, and have taken over the front yard! Thanks to helping neighbors and an automatic sprinkler system, all stayed alive and colorful.
We are trying to get back in the routine here in Iowa - this thing called JET LAG is for real! Tom and I are both waking up around 1 a.m. and are wide awake, and in the afternoon we are dragging.
My photos from the Yangtze River are coming, as promised, and my excuse is the "Beijing Crud" - which I still have. I started coughing the third day we were in China, and thanks to antibiotics taken after we got home, I am slowly recovering. I know this nasal/lung problem was caused by breathing the polluted air over there, as I am almost never sick. The cough is like none I have ever had before, too. Not fun.
More soon,
Carol
Monday, September 8, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Leaving Shanghai
Greetings from Shanghai ! Tom and I are in China's largest airport right now, getting ready for our United flight home. We are very happy travelers, as we got upgraded to business class - as economy class was oversold.
This airport is amazing. Several of us took a "Mag Train" to get here from downtown Shanghai (as I said earlier, all of Shanghai is downtown with 18.5 million people).
The train, actually called Shanghai Maglev Train, has a magnetic levitation "track" and we couldn't even feel the ride. Were we actually on a train? Who knew, because in 7 minutes and 20 seconds, we were at the airport. We traveled 258.62 miles per hour - on a train!
The windows are specially coated with something which makes it seem like the train isn't going as fast as it is. I haven't figured that one out yet, and maybe never will.
This airport, when finished in 2010, will serve NINE MILLION PEOPLE A DAY. Unbelievable.
OK, photos from the Yangtze River and more will be coming as soon as we get home to Iowa!
More later,
Carol
This airport is amazing. Several of us took a "Mag Train" to get here from downtown Shanghai (as I said earlier, all of Shanghai is downtown with 18.5 million people).
The train, actually called Shanghai Maglev Train, has a magnetic levitation "track" and we couldn't even feel the ride. Were we actually on a train? Who knew, because in 7 minutes and 20 seconds, we were at the airport. We traveled 258.62 miles per hour - on a train!
The windows are specially coated with something which makes it seem like the train isn't going as fast as it is. I haven't figured that one out yet, and maybe never will.
This airport, when finished in 2010, will serve NINE MILLION PEOPLE A DAY. Unbelievable.
OK, photos from the Yangtze River and more will be coming as soon as we get home to Iowa!
More later,
Carol
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