Busy Busy

The past two weeks have been quite busy.  My boss from Paris and his boss from Utah were here for the past two weeks.  This called for long days and a lot of meetings during the first week in Shanghai.  Then for the 2nd week my boss went to Beijing for some meetings and the COO and I headed to Japan.  We first went to Nagoya which is where is son is serving a mission.  Elder Stevenson was kind enough to help arrange for us to go to breakfast with his son.  Elder Stevenson came and met us in Nagoya the night before and came to the breakfast with us.  Then we all jumped on the bullet train to go to Tokyo where we split ways and we went to work while he carried on with his church duties.  He's busy getting ready for a new temple groundbreaking.  While on the bullet train we went past Mt. Fuji.  There are only a couple months out of the year when it isn't covered with snow.  Apparently the locals have a saying that you are crazy not to climb it once and you are crazy to do it twice. 

This picture turned out blurry but it is in front of the Tokyo temple.

We had great meetings in Tokyo and then jumped on a plane to go to Hong Kong.  Once in HK we met up with my boss again for a meeting the following morning.  After that meeting my boss flew back to France and the COO and I flew to Xiamen to meet with our factory.  The following night I left for Shanghai and he went back to Utah.  Both of us were exhausted but it had been a very good and very productive couple of weeks.

Last Sunday Jen spoke in church and she did an awesome job.  She was very well prepared and gave a great talk.  Her mom tried to come out to Shanghai this week but all of the flights were full and she wasn't able to come.  Hopefully she can come out in November.

While the bosses were in town we had a chance to go see the pro tennis tournament.  We went to the semifinals and it was very interesting.  I'd never been to a tennis match before or really watched much of it. Nadal and Roddick were in the tournament but didn't make it to the finals.

I got back in town just before the weekend and we had fun with the kids.  Will and I enjoyed some meet on a stick, one of his favorites.

 Will is speaking more and more in both Chinese and English.  He's picking up new words every day.  He's got several classes that he goes to each week.  He has a science class, dance/music class, and a class that seems to have the theme of "let's do what you can't do at home" class.  Will really like the later class because they get to do things like color on walls, paint the floor, throw things etc.  The class is taught by a Chinese lady and the three other students are all Chinese so it's good for Will to go and interact with them.  They were surprised at first that Will could speak/understand what they said but they are used to it now and just treat him like the other kids which is what we were hoping for.  

Will also loves to play at the indoor play areas.  He is now big enough to play on the zip line which he thinks is so cool.  Here he is hanging and going for a ride!  June is still growing big checks.