Playing in the Shanghai Snow

The big news lately that I'm certain that many of you Stateside have seen in the news is the weather in China. Specifically snow! This is the most snow that Shanghai has seen in over 3 decades. You can see the picture of Century Park from our apartment. It's a much different view than we are used to.

This has caused such a problem with the transportation. Especially since this is the heaviest travel season and all of the migrant workers are trying to travel home for their annual leave. This is the only time of the year that many people get home to see their spouses and children. Kirk followed up with all of his employees that were traveling and they did make it home after much delays at bus stations, train stations and airports.

The kids loved it. And not expecting this, I left their snow stuff in Michigan!! Not very smart. You can see from the pictures that both kids had a ball. Elizabeth actually had a snow day. Kirk took her out and they built 2 snowmen. When I came home from work, I took her and Alex down to the playground to see them, but someone had knocked them over. She was so upset, you all know how dramatic she can be. I explained to her that probably whoever did it had never seen snow before and didn't know what they were and wanted to play with them. That didn't seem to help that much!

It is still cold here and there are traces of snow left.