This Great Work

 Tom had January 3rd off so we decided to spend the whole weekend in another city.  We procured tickets on the high speed train.  On the fastest, toll route it would take 1 hour and 11 minutes by car to arrive in Suzhou from our city.  But on the high speed train, it is 31 minutes, with 1 stop.  It cost $8 per person in first class.   We got a Marriott hotel and watched some videos of the top things to do in Suzhou.  Our plans were bigger than our time, not only is there much to do there, but traffic is 2 times worse than Changzhou and finding places to eat ate up much of our time too. But we crammed quite a bit in the two days.  We had church then took it easy on Sunday--online church has its advantages and ate our meals at the hotel's free offerings + snack we had purchased.  The girls also had their temple recommend interviews while we were taking a leisure-get-out-of-the-hotel walk.  That is one for the record books! Here is wha...

After our passport pictures , we were whisked away by WJ to tour Waston-Ortho. We met Luke (the global sales manager) and he gave us a tour of the facilities beginning with the displays of all of their medical devices.  They produce a lot of products and sell them all over the world. Something like 58 countries.  They have lots of plates for joining different bones back together, but also stomach staplers and a host of things I could not figure out.  It was pretty impressive. This is their wall of Chinese doctors that use their products.   It was all very impressive. Then we went into the building where Waston-Ortho is housed. They have a pretty impressive machine shop that will manufacture the parts (orthopedic implants). Tom was very impressed with all of it. They are making him an office --with carpet and a conference table and who knows what else-- just off of this area.  We did not go in it because it isn't quite finished.  They won't let him star...