Chandeliers and Wallpaper? Check.

Our old landlord decided to move back to Taiwan and sell the apartment.  This meant we had to move out by March 15th.  So a few months ago, I started dropping by realtors in the neighborhood seeing if anyone spoke English and could show me some apartments.  I found different levels of English and varying levels of apartments.  After seeing about 10-12 apartments, I found the winner. It's in the older "phase" of our same compound, just across the street.  Not as fancy, smaller apartments, no door ladies in the buildings and not as obsessive landscaping, and cheaper.  And as a bonus, it comes with awesome chandeliers and wallpaper.  It also came fully furnished and with toys.  Check it out.

Oooh shiny.

Back in Business

We've had much to post about but technical (and political) difficulties have stopped us from our blogging work.  Since January, the Great China Firewall has grown in size and strength and made getting on blogspot harder.  We also moved apartments and were temporarily without internet.  We have internet at last, but it is slower and we're only now discovering which parts of the apartment get the fastest connection.  It seems to change throughout the day.  I'm flirting with the idea of switching to tumblr. but I seem to have found a blogspot sweetspot and will try to stay here for now.

We reached a big milestone recently.  March 14th was both Naomi's 12th birthday and our one-year Chinaversary. The year went so fast, but then I look back at pictures like this...