Hello from Shanghai!  Well, I finally arrived here yesterday after 17 hours in the air.  There was a little adventure leaving New Hampshire, since my flight from Manchester was cancelled.  So, I had to get to Boston in time to catch a flight to Chicago, and make my connection to Shanghai.  Anyways, it all worked out.  Getting here is a very long day.  I left my house at 4:30AM on Saturday, and arrive in Shanghai at 3:00PM on Sunday afternoon.  After getting through customs, and the 30 minute taxi ride, I finally arrived at the hotel around 5:30PM.  (By the way, the taxi drivers here are crazy.  That’s another story…)

I am here for only one week this time.  It is my eighth trip to China in the past year.  Normally, a trip is closer to two weeks, because of travel time, and to allow time to visit customers in more than one city.

The purpose of my previous trips was to visit customers and assist with implementing new manufacturing software that we developed.  This week, I am attending a global workshop that is being held in our Shanghai office.  For those that are interested, our office is in the Shanghai Kerry Center on Nanjing Road in Shanghai.  Nanjing Road is one of the main tourist/shopping areas in Shanghai:

http://www.kerryprops.com/skc/english/03.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Road%2C_Shanghai

After a quick dinner, it was time to rest for our first day of meetings tomorrow.

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