Japan, Moving

I'm making this post from my hotel room in Japan right now. Jen is asleep on the bed next to me and Will is asleep in his crib. Originally I wasn't supposed to come to Japan until the middle of September but I recieved a phone call just a couple of days ago saying that I needed to be here on Monday for an important meeting. Because I had just spent the previous week in South Africa and Thailand I felt bad coming home for just 24 hrs before jumping on a plane to Japan, so I booked three tickets instead of one and brought the whole family along. I however, am exhauseted. In the past four days I've been in four countries, South Africa, Thailand, China, and Japan - these places aren't exactly next door! But at least Jen and Will are with me now.  This is the 4th country Will has been to before turning 1 years old, little fella is starting to fill up his passport!

In the 24 hours that I was home this weekend we spent out weekend in true Price fashion, we moved!  We moved to the other side of the river in Shanghai.  The area where we live is called Pudong.  This is an exciting move for us because in this area of the city we will be able to run outside and we are close to big parks and fun areas for Will.  To put it in my sister's terms, this new area is much less 'Chinese-y' as it had sidewalks, trees, parks and much less traffic.  Our new compound is quite large with about 100 buildings in it that are all over 30 stories tall, so we probably have a couple hundred thousand people living in our compound alone.  But the compound is very kid friendly and very cool.  Moving by yourself makes for a very long day.  Jen kept Will entertained and cleaned the old place while me and the driver lifted boxes and made trips back and forth all day long.  We are looking forward to getting settled in the new place and will post pictures once we do.

This is a moving-truck-taxi that we called up.  These have pay meters just like a regular taxi.  In the end this truck cost me a whopping $16, not bad! 

These are the moving boxes that we bought online and had delivered to the house.  While I was traveling Jen packed up the whole place in these boxes and labeled everything so that when we moved into the new place we knew where every box needed to go.  Way to go Jen!

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This is Will at a Japanese restraunt in Japan last night.  He was really liking the miso soup and couldn't get enough of it.  He got tired of waiting for spoon fulls so he just dove right in and started drinking it up.

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I forgot to post this picture last time.  This is the view out my hotel room window in Cape Town, South Africa.  This is the Atlantic Ocean so it's very cold.

This is out the window of my hotel room in Durban, South Africa.  This is the India Ocean so it's very warm.  The warm ocean makes for nasty flights over it.  It sends up drafts of warm air which create a lot of turbulance for the plane.  The flight from SA to Thailand was 11 hours of the plane bouncing all over the place.  I hate this flight.