I finally got back on the Internet today. But I still haven’t been able to get my laptop online so no pictures (yet).

Halloween came and went and no one seemed to care here.

Two days ago we flew from Guangzhou to Shanghai. Very big ultra modern airport. One of our agents is Tiger and his office is in Shanghai and he was a wonderful host. The first night we had a great dinner. After a few Chinese beers Jennifer started a charades game, so we had to give clues to our teammates who didn’t speak each others’ language — it was a blast. Then we played rock paper scissors, which apparently is a truly universal game. (Shirley, our Atlanta partner who is from near Shanghai won, which was suprising because I am very hard to beat at that game.)

Unfortunately, we didn’t get to go to the downtown area and see everything. Yesterday, we spent all day at one of the factories that makes some of our candles. Very interesting. We spent the whole day planning and giving instructions for new products. In a few months our product line of wholesale wedding favors will go from about 15 products to over 60.

It is amazing how inexpensive you can get things here. For example, all the offices we’ve been in have desks that would cost several thousand dollars n the U.S. that they got from one of the factories for a few hundred bucks. Jennifer and I are planning to load up on furniture when we have some extra space in one of the containers.

Today is our last day here and we are in Zhejiang (about an hour from Shanghai) touring more factories and meeting with the place that does our printing. Tonight we fly back and tomorrow I can start getting caught up on 2,000 emails. If you tried emailing me, sorry, I haven’t been able to get my email all week. It’s been weird not being on email for that long…