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Saturday, January 31, 2009

January 31st, 2009

In response to brother dear, I too thought that I had crossed the line and we were incommunicado…I had described the New Year’s Eve fireworks with very arsenal type language.  But, it seems we have been forgiven!

The weather here has been delightful.  If it is raining–it is warm and if the sun comes out–it is cold, dry and brisk.  Yesterday was a rainy and warm morning (running time) and then as the day wore on the sun came out and the wind whipped up and it became that brisk mountain air that we love.  Sometimes it feels like we are in Aspen!!!  We saw on the Chinese news that the southern states in the US have had severe ice storms and won’t have power until mid-February?…where is that?

Jeff has gotten much useful information from the doctors this go round.  He has a better idea how to maintain his growth from the stem cells and how to enhance the progress.  All around, it just feels like he has gotten so many more benefits from this trip. 

Yesterday we went to the RTMart mall and shopped to wrap up gift giving and had lots of laughs.  It is so much nicer when we go out together.  I do spend a lot of time ‘out there’ by myself.  The people here are just so curious to see Westerners.  Jeff and I were in the elevator and ran into a bloke that had just gotten here from England with his daughter who is in a wheelchair.  He was returning from his maiden voyage to RT Mart and got so angry at the rudeness (his interpretation) of the Chinese that he left empty handed and was still explosively mad in the elevator.  I explained to him that it was not necessarily rude, but could be interpreted as curious…he didn’t buy it.  Anyway, that is something that you hear on this floor often from us Westerners.  The culture here is just so completely different on the manners front.  I don’t think they have the time or the space for what we consider polite.  But, it is something I will treasure forever…the shopping trips to RT Mart where people ram into me with their carts…just says I love you to me.  Enough on that…

…At 4:00pm Jack (hospital driver) drove us to West Lake to eat at an Indian restaurant that I found while googling….Haveli.  Oh my curried goodness, it was the best meal that Jeff and I have ever ever ever had in our entire lives.  It was so not Chinese food.  It was the most adorably decorated restaurant…right down to the bathrooms! 

(Oh, by the way, Jeff did not have a treatment on Friday so my predicted calendar is all askew.  We are just going with the flow ’til Wednesday.)

We came home and watched the last of our ‘Heroes’ season two and then watched the movie “Fool for Love”.

Today we have a free day and who knows….

See y’all in 5 days!

xoxo

J&S

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