This afternoon Lee and I were relaxing after a long day of work when the alarm in the hallway started blaring. When I opened the door to figure out what was going on my next door neighbor had done the same thing. We looked at each other, shrugged our shoulders and closed our doors. But being the good rule followers that we are, Lee and I headed down the stairs to evacuate the building, or at least to ask the doorman what was going on.

It turns out that the notices in the elevator really do have pertinent information. The alarms are being checked this week and there's no cause for alarm (pardon the pun). It seems my neighbor hasn't been reading the notices either. I think I better get started learning to read Chinese.

Since we were out and about anyway we decided to visit our new favorite fruit smoothie stand.

Those cups are filled with cut up fruits and vegetables and you pick which one you want, decide if you want sugar or ice and the lady at the counter blends it up for you. You can have papaya, passion fruit, tomato (which is considered a fruit here, not a vegetable), guava, pineapple. We both chose the fruit salad combo and sat at the table on the sidewalk to enjoy the traffic.

If I look a bit tired in the photo it's because I've caught whatever disease has been circulating through the teachers. At the moment it seems to be just a cold and I hope to be on the road to recovery by the time we get on the plane. In the meantime I'm drinking lots of fluids and getting plenty of rest, as long as the fire alarm doesn't go off again.