Where in the World are the Richardsons?: Frigid

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Frigid

It is colder than lint in a snowman's belly button here in Shanghai.

We don't know why it's so freakin' cold here because the temperature says it's around 30 degrees fahrenheit, which is cold, but not Icelandic. People say it's the humidity. It might be - who knows, but this is the coldest 30 degrees we have ever felt.

It certainly has us yearning for July when it's 95 degrees with 100% humidity and we all have 100+ mosquito bites.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...: Hey, be thankful that you are not in Des Moines, where the wind chill was -24 a few days ago.; February 3, 2008 at 11:23 AM

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And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter... My hope is your story will be about changing...about learning to love a child...about learning to love others more than we love ourselves... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?... And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed.

-Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts

Juliet's Quotes (Seeing China through the eyes of a 5 Year Old)

“You have to sit up front and you CANNOT talk to me.” – Instructing Annie the other day when she had to ride the school bus with Juliet because she had a meeting at the school.
"Huh, yea, we have rice every day." - responding to Annie's foolish question, "Did you have rice with your hotdog today?"
"Well, you didn't tell her you were my mom, so I think she thought you were the cleaner ... you know ... of our house." - when talking with Annie after she had met one of Juliet's new friends at school.
"It's hotter than Hell here, Gigi!" - when explaining the extreme heat and humidity of Shanghai to her grandmother (we don't know where she hears these things...)
"We just need to end all this nonsense and stop going out at night." - referring to our latest shopping excursion (see "Searching for a Princess Bike")
"What's a bidet?" - questioning the other toilet-looking contraption in the bathroom
"Ahhh that feels good" - said in a deep rumbling voice as she was referring to our massage chair the landlord left for us.
"Man, it's like these people have never seen a girl before" - referring to the hundreds of people gawking at her during an IKEA outing.
"This guy drives really slow" - referring to our driver, Mr. Chen, after 3 minutes in the car with him on day one.

By the Numbers

3 - number of stays in a Chinese children's hospital
2 - Number of Typhoons we've weathered
1 - Number of lightning strikes in our front yard
41 - Number of stoplights between our house and Scott's office
10 - Number of thermostats in our house - one for about every 380 square feet
3 - Number of English words our driver speaks (Hello, OK, Bye-Bye)
8 - Gallons of sweat secreted by the three of us during the first five minutes of arriving in steamy Shanghai
96 - Number of keys we have to our home