Four Days and counting...
6/24/08
I feel like the last 24 hours have been quite the whirlwind. A lot of good things have happened since then and things seem to finally be falling into place. The visa applications are in Chicago and being processed. We were able to get our flight changed so that we can leave on Sunday, July 27th with the majority of the rest of our group. The good news is that it wasn't nearly as expensive as others in our group had to deal with and that IBM will be able to pick up the majority, if not all of the cost associated with that.
We're getting to the point that hikers and mountain climbers face where the summit is within sight, but they are entering the roughest terrain of their journey. I feel like everytime that we go to Target or elsewhere to pick up a few supplies, we get home and make a new list of supplies that we need that is three times longer than our previous list! Despite being in a rather large city (Shanghai has about 20 million people living in it), it's tough to know what we'll have access to, so we (actually Jamie) is trying to be prepared for every situation we might encounter. It's probably better to err on that side of things rather than not being prepared, which is more my nature.
Well, I suppose I'd better stop procrastinating and get back to my list of things to be done before we leave. We'll write more later...
