Day 1 - July 3 Sydney to Shanghai

After an early start and a flight delay of an hour, we headed to Shanghai on our uneventful Qantas flight. As we came through the arrivals gate we were looking at all the little handwritten signs in search of our names to find our pick up. At the end of the line was a petite Chinese woman holding a massive, very professional sign, with our names emblazoned on it! She is Giselle, wife of Mr Peter Lee who is sponsoring us here in China. She presented me with a magnificent bouquet of flowers - apricot roses and lillies. While we were waiting for the car, she told me that as she was getting ready to come out, she found a CD of mine she had bought some time ago and didn't realise I was the same person! We are now at the Shanghai Hotel in a rather lovely executive suite where we will stay for most of our time here. Tomorrow we are off to Hang Zhou where we will shop for my wedding dress and stay the night.