It's Cold!

Wow is it cold in Shanghai today! It is below freezing this evening and very damp. It isn't snowing like it is up north in Beijing but this doesn't seem right for a city I always thought of as almost tropical. As I look out my window at the palm trees in our compound I can almost feel their pain. The evergreen tree outside the bedroom window, all done up in blinking blue Christmas lights, is leaning sideways - the star atop it glowing weakly.