Ni hao Nain!

Sunday 3 April was an exciting day in Shanghai as we welcomed our first visitor - Nain.  As Sam decided to leave the country as his mother arrived Oliver,William and I formed the welcoming committe!  We nearly messed it up though as the flight landed really early and we only just got to the airport in time. 

We were all really excited to see each other and much to Gao Yi's amusement chatted away non stop on the journey home.  William and Oliver were pleased to show Nain around our new house, especially their playroom, dressing area and ensuite!

The first couple of days we gave Sue an insight into our day to day life here in Shanghai.  We had coffee at Costa, went to the park, went swimming and had lunch and a lazy afternoon at the pub.  Whilst enjoying the sunny weather and sitting outside at the pub we decided a beer would be good.  Unfortunately the size of beer we wanted got lost in translation and we ended up with large ones!  This did turn out to be for the good for Sue though, whose food was so spicy that she quickly polished it off!

 

An introduction to our life in Shanghai would nt be complete without a visit to Carrefour.  The trip was very exciting as the fish or rather sea/river life counter had stocked up since we were last there:

The tank near William contains frogs, the one near Oliver, eels and the near one terapins!

Sue also discovered the excellent DVD van with DVDs for 50p!  We stocked up and watched The Social Network one evening.  It hasn't helped with her understanding of Facebook though!