Judy gets up feeling pretty good after a decent night’s sleep.  Our room is really hot at night.  We had to leave a window open last night in an attempt to balance the heat (coming from the floors below us).  She was almost out the door before I woke up.  Most mornings I get up when she does, and stretch and eat.  Don’t know what happened this morning.

I’ve been stalling writing the blog entries for the last few days, hoping there would be some pictures.  I finally got some pictures of the party, and Judy’s performance last Friday, so no more writing excuses.

The radiators in our bathrooms will not turn off.  The knobs are non-functional and we can’t turn off the heat in those rooms.  I contact Lisa, our leasing agent.  She calls UHN, and they send a technician.  I don’t think he understood the instructions.  He probably couldn’t understand I wanted the heat off on one of the coldest days so far this winter.  He fiddled with some pipes in an outside closet, said the Chinese word for “good”, and left.  The radiators are still going strong.  I guess I’ll try again. 

I’m also working on changing our travel arrangements for late January, the Chinese New Year Holiday/Break.  Judy’s school is out for 10 days (my school is out for a month.  We had planned a trip to Phuket, Thailand, with the last few days in Bangkok.  I don’t know how much of the political turmoil in Bangkok is in the news in the US?  CNN here is full of stories on the protests, and the tense situation, etc.  The prime minister at the center of the controversy dissolved the congress yesterday, and announced elections will be held while we were scheduled to be in Bangkok.  It would be a truly wonderful historical experience, and all, but we’ve decided to stay on the beach in Phuket, and not dodge Molotov cocktails in the capital city.

Judy ate with the girls tonight.  They went to Pete’s Tex Mex.  She gets home full of stories about everyone’s upcoming Christmas travel.  We’re working on ideas for Judy’s Spring Break in April.  We’ll have 5 days.  So many countries and so few holidays.