On Our Way!!
Greetings from quarantine in Shanghai! I am reviving this blog to report on our new adventure.
We had a wonderful, yet abbreviated summer before setting off to China. First Dan finally returned home! We spent a few weeks at the beach. My brothers, the Kimelia’s, Anita and Chris came to see us before we flew off. Morton went to camp with his good friend Julien for a couple weeks and Celia went to the New York Times writing program for two weeks. Dan ran around spending time with as many people as he could before returning to China. We all went to New York for a few days before flying off -quickly getting some time in with Dan’s aunt Masako and cousin Keiko, doing our final packing, meeting the movers and seeing friends. I am very grateful for everyone who worked in time to spend with me (and us) before we flew out. (I am so sorry that I wasn’t better at taking pictures to mark these wonderful moments)
Above is a picture just before we left our hotel in Detroit for the airport to catch our flight to Shanghai. We had to spend a few days in Detroit, getting a couple PCR tests before we’d get our Green Code from the Chinese government to be able to board our flight.
We spent these days seeing a bit of Detroit, which was super interesting, and, best of all, catching up with Betty, my college roommate, and her daughter Evelyn.
Our last day in Detroit was a panic – when the kids and I didn’t get a Green Code – we got a Red Code. After hours of panic we found out we had submitted pictures of our expired visas from last October!
Finally got our Green Code and we loaded our crazy large EIGHT bags into an SUV car service and went to catch our 11:40 PM flight.
Dan finally home:
time with family and friends (wish I took more pictures!):
Time at the beach:
Suzanne’s opening:
In the TWO taxis to take all our stuff to the airport. Goodbye Brooklyn!
With Betty in Detroit.
