Travel Day!\u00a0 As Judy heads out, we\u2019re comparing notes on details I\u2019ve probably forgotten.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t been separated since we came to China.\u00a0 I\u2019m a little uncomfortable about leaving.\u00a0 I know she\u2019s a big girl, and everything, but it\u2019s been a team effort over here for 8 months.<\/p>\n
I grab a taxi and get to the airport in record time (1\/2 hour).\u00a0 Check-in is smooth, and I roll easily through security and immigration.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had a lot of recent practice working through this airport.\u00a0 Just as the plane begins to load, I get a text from Lisa, our real estate agent.\u00a0 She\u2019s telling me the electricity and water will be turned off tomorrow (Tuesday) in our apartment building.\u00a0 This is definitely a complication.<\/p>\n
I hurriedly try to find out when, exactly, this will happen, and give her Judy\u2019s phone number.\u00a0 I also try to get the info to Judy so the two of them can communicate.\u00a0 I\u2019m about to be incommunicado (?) for 11-12 hours, till I get to San Francisco, and by then, Judy should be asleep.\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe this is happening the first time I leave.<\/span><\/p>\n Judy\u2019s in class, so my texting skills are put to a major test, and not that successfully.\u00a0 I\u2019m just too slow.\u00a0 I finally finish my texts on the plane with flight attendants glaring at my phone.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to find out how all this works out.\u00a0 At least I received the information before I left.\u00a0 If not, Judy wouldn\u2019t have had any idea what was about to happen.\u00a0 The text from Lisa wouldn\u2019t have arrived to me in the US.\u00a0 What a nice surprise for Judy the first morning I\u2019m gone.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Travel Day!\u00a0 As Judy heads out, we\u2019re comparing notes on details I\u2019ve probably forgotten.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t been separated since we came to China.\u00a0 I\u2019m a little uncomfortable about leaving.\u00a0 I know she\u2019s a big girl, and everything, but it\u2019s been … Continue reading