China at Last

After our week in Japan, Jennifer and I were anxious to get to Shanghai and on to visit her family. Our detour to Japan was really an amazing one that both of us will treasure. We took a short JAL flight from Osaka to Shanghai the first week of May with the plan of staying with Jennifer’s parents to celebrate their upcoming Golden Wedding anniversary on the 14th of May. Little did we know at the time but our stay in Shanghai would be punctuated by excursions southwards to the cities of Hangzhou, Ningbo, and Shaoxing. We were to visit the historical home of Chinang Kaishek and the home town of China’s most famous modern writer, Lu Xun. Finally, were visited a tea farm in the highlands above Hangzhou that made my trip. Stay tuned. During the next two weeks Jennifer I and ate more Chinese banquets than we could in a year here in Los Angeles. But most of all it was the people that were enjoyed the most. All this and more.

Shanghai

Our base of operations in China is out of Shanghai. Jennifer’s brother and her parents all live in this great historically rich city. What I love most about Shanghai is that it changes my conceptions about the world more than any city that I have ever visited. Our conceptions of China are totally rearranged after one visit here. If you get out in the world and open your eyes things change. Maybe its not the outside things that change but how we see view the world. China is an amazing country and will be a world leader in this century. There is not a doubt in my mind that China is on the way up! Take a look and maybe you will see what I have seen.