Travel to Nanjing!

We had originally planned to travel to Nanjing on the 22nd, but with my fathers funeral, we pushed the date to the 26th and arrived early in the morning on the 28th.  The trip from BOI to SEA then Shanghai took us up over Alaska and down the eastern coast of Russia.  After landing in Shanghai, we had a delay before China Eastern Airlines could fly us to Nanjing.  We traveled for about 25 hours.  Nanjing is about 100 miles inland and sits squarely on the Yangtze river (they don't call the river that in the native tongue).  Our trip from the airport on the south to the apartment on the north was about 45 minutes without traffic at 1 am.  

We were so pleased when we showed up with our 9 bags (5 checked and 4 carry on) that we didn't need to carry them up to the 8th floor!  There is an elevator.

 We have a nice apartment with two bedrooms, a study, air conditioning, very small kitchen and western bathroom facilities, and some of the normal amenities in the US. 

These are pictures of the views out our different windows to the building surrounding us on campus.