Alive and well and living in Shanghai

So now that we've been in Shanghai for two months, and had a few false starts, we're finally starting to feel a little bit settled...

we have a place to live;

we have started to unpack our worldly belongings (and are shocked at how much stuff we have);

we found a doctor to delivery the baby (and she is soooo west coast);

we have learned to direct taxi drivers to our new apartment (except unfortunately none of them understand our pronunciation of our road);

we have satellite tv from the Phillipines;

we had bottled water delivered (but haven't quite worked out how to get them to come again);

we met a lady at Ikea who cleans our apartment (long story);

...we even have a Christmas tree.

Yes, we have finally started to get things sorted. But not without a few comedic moments.