Our first coffee at home

It’s been a whirlwind so far, everything so new and different. Everything tastes different even the skim milk.

Yesterday morning (Sunday) our first morning in the apartment we had our first coffee and it had its challenges. I brought my favorite flavor in my suitcase, Hazelnut and we had bought milk the night before at City Market or shall we say Overpriced Market. ($2.65 for one single serving size blueberry yogurt.)

As I perked our first cup I realized I did not have any sugar or sweetener for my coffee. Tony drinks his black so he was going to be fine. What to do what to do……ah ha! I had a few Werthers candies in my purse, a perfect sugar substitute. And it really was quite yummy, just crush it up add to hot coffee, melt and add milk. I really enjoyed the coffee – oh did I mention it was 3:00am in the morning. A little trouble sleeping with the time change and all. So we started our day, Tony doing homework while I checked email and screwed around on the Internet. We headed down to the gym at about 6am and got in our workout then showered dressed and started the next part of our day. We headed out to Paul’s – a French bakery located a few steps from the front door of our apartment building. You know Shanghai is the Paris of the East! A quick cappuccino as the coffee from 3:00am had worn off and we were off to the shopping mall to look at hairdryers, and grocery prices. We thought it had to be cheaper if it was away from the Ritz Carlton Hotel. As we found out not really. More on that later.

Here is a pretty picture of the holiday wreath that was sent to us by one of Tony’s colleagues as well as a nice poinsettia given to us by the apartment staff. This picture is of our dining room living room area. The door you see is to the small balcony. The wreath is so fragrant and fills the apartment with a nice fir sent. Since I didn’t have any hooks or any way to hang the wreath I am using it as a center piece. Pretty nice don’t you think?