It's thunderstorming, coming down is sheets of rain. I was up 1/2 the night with food poisoning. It's Monday, and it's time to go pick up an unhappy toddler.

In other news, we concocted a walking tour of Shanghai yesterday, and were very impressed. It's really westerner-friendly. We saw the incredible YuYuan gardens, which are only, like, 500+ years old. Did some shopping in the Dragon's Gate shopping area with at least 1,000,000 of my closest Chinese friends. We were accosted by a young gal that wanted to show us her work at art school. It was really fun to meet some college students and see their work. They were VERY talented. We bought some images of the 4 Beauties that will adorn Medora's room when she's a bit older.

We then ended the day seeing the Bund buildings lit up like you see in Shanghai postcards.