On February 16th, Josh and I took off from Grand Rapids with a final destination of Shanghai, China. Our mission was to spend a little over a week serving as support for a customer’s supplier’s plant trial. The work details are largely confidential, but conveniently also rather uninteresting to most who might read this.
After one flight cancelation and about 24 hours of flights and layovers, we touched down in Shanghai. And, thus the fun began. We had our first, and so far only “mishap” at the airport. We got a ride to the hotel from a not-so-legit taxi service, which basically just means that we overpaid by a little bit.
Tuesday we got a message saying don’t bother coming to the factory until Thursday. Thursday we went to the factory only to find that nothing was going to happen until Friday. Friday we went to the factory and were told that nothing ws going to happen until Wednesday… so here we are Wednesday and finally the build is going to happen this afternoon.
Josh and I had the weekend to take a look around Shanghai. Friday night we took a walk around the West side of the river where we’re staying. There’s a fairly large area of shops etc. near our
And… I’m out of time for this entry. More later.
