Our hotel in Shanghai has internet, so i hopped on to post a new blog entry. Sorry for the lack of entries lately. However, Google and China are not on good terms right now, so I am sending this to Mom to have her post for us. (Hi guys! This is Tina~~For some reason I couldn't copy and paste, so I'm having to retype all this. I'm not as fast as Josh. And no, Josh, we weren't still in bed when you phoned. I was planting flowers at my dad's.)
After Phi Phi Don, we returned to Hong Kong for one night to finish up some business and get ready to board a train for Ningbo. Johnna had to pack up her stuff, re-load her phone card, check-out of the dorm...all the jazz that would be pretty boring to read about. Johnna was able to show off her newly bedazzled ring finger to her Hong Kong friends which was fun to watch. We have enjoyed a blissful existence since agreeing to wed. I had intentionally limited talk of "our" future together this semester to keep the proposal from becoming obvious. Where we are in our travels. We had originally planned to board a train from Hong Kong today. Ater some brief discussion last night, we both realized that spending 23 hours on a train sounded pretty awful. Johnna worked some DIY travel agent magic to hook up a flight instead. We paid a little extra, but I am not on a train right now...enough said. We still have some train time to go, but it is much shorter. We are staying in a hotel near the train station. Tomorrow, we will take a train from Shanghai to Ningbo where Mike and Yi (Josh's high school bud and his wife) will meet us. We are excited to see a less-touristy part of China. In the hour we've been here, we've already noticed that Shanghai is much more sprawling, has fewer tall buildings, and has fewer English speakers. It is a neat experience to be here, though, and we feel very blessed.
Hope all is well in your worlds.
Josh
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