Numbers

This is officially my 500th post since I began blogging in August of 2005, while we were waiting for Gwen's referral. I never imagined that the blog would continue like it has, let alone that we would be continuing Now We Are Six having returned to live in the place we were so longing to reach when the blog began. Thank you to all who have been a part of this journey... it's so very good to have friends and support along the way!

In other numbers, I realized today that we really do not live on the 48th floor of our building. Yes, our apartment unit number is 48G, but the Chinese seem to have a thing against the number four so they avoid it whenever possible. This means that our building does not have a fourth floor, but skips from the third floor directly to the fifth. It is funny to watch the numbers climb on the digital display in the elevator. We skip 4, then go on to 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13... aha, there is no 14! The pattern continues this way. There is no floor number 24, no 34... but then we get to the forties, and apparently it's just a little too obvious to skip all ten of them, so they skip only the double, floor 44. So I figured today, skipping those fours, that we actually live on the forty-third floor of our building. Does this really matter? Not in the least. I just found it funny!