..Shanghai. Yep we're headed back there tomorrow night for our third visit - this time we're there to meet Nick(my brother for the uninformed!) who will be staying with us in Wuxi for two nights before continuing on back to Melbourne and finally back to the UK.
He should be greeted with the disgustingly hot and muggy weather we have been enjoying for the past oh two months straight.
As you can see by the past few posts, the weather has been a mixture been so so hot and muggy and absolutely storm central. The storms here are big and loud. I don't think I have ever seen so much lightning. The thunder even sounds different. There was one last night that went off when I was on the phone to Nick that was like a sonic boom explosion or something. The lightning lit up the night sky as bright as day while the roar of the thunder had the whole house shaking.
I heard some thunder the other day which literally sounded like a bomb had gone off, with this long drawn out reverb. We just narrowly missed being totally pissed on while we went out for dinner tonight. We had to take shelter in a Kedi - Kedi being Wuxi's equivalent to 7-11.
It seems this country is sometimes on a mission to annoy the crap out of us. Every day it finds a new way to come through with the goods. We were just sitting down watching the Men's tennis gold medal match on CCTV1 (China Central Television) - the channel which seems to broadcast the most live events (any other channel has basically china only events - and then only the events where China wins - over and over and over).
So the tennis is on, it's Nadal vs Gonzales, looks to be a great game, Courtney is really enjoying it as it's been the first tennis she's been able to watch all year - then 6-5 in the second set they...cut to a regular news program. They can't possibly continue to broadcast the game or anything. It must be 100% by the numbers.
Bleh.
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