Sleepless In Shanghai

It has been a crazy week! As many of you know, we had an intruder in our house last week. Don't want to rehash this too much as I would like to put this all behind us however I'd like to get the story out in its entirety accurately.

Around 2:35 AM Thursday 5/10 Truffle (sleeping on the floor beside me) "woofed." For those of you who know Truf well, he is not known to bark much less utter a low woof. For some reason I heard his muffled sound and awoke. I thought I had heard a small sound but dismissed it as nothing. I then had the most uneasy feeling come over me. The gut instict was kicking in. I remember consciously thinking twice about my gut and how you should always trust your gut. I woke up Peter to tell him Truf had heard something and that maybe he should check on Tyler. Now, Peter normally is like "sure, honey. Go back to sleep." This time, Peter got up without a hint of complaint. As Peter walked across the "gang plank" towards Tyler's room he heard a sound and said "who's there!" With that, we both heard some scurrying. I raced towards the panic button that summons the compound guards. Peter further yelled (more of a gutteral sound) "GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!!!" Peter and I both saw the relection of what appeared to be a man running out of our living room towards the back of our house. Peter grabbed Ty and handed him to me and attempted to contact the guards at the gate. Unfortuntately for Peter, Truffle was glued to our bedroom and would not leave Tyler and I. Pookie was on high alert and ready to defend his family.

What transpired afterwards was a waiting game that I will not detail too much as this is a public blog. We placed a few calls to the US (Mom and Briggs) so that someone knew we needed help. In an unbelieveable coincidence, the head of Briggs Security worldwide had just had dinner with Peter 4 hours earlier so we knew he could get to us in Shanghai. Mr. Li picked up John and the HR Director for International and brought them to our house at 4 AM. They spent the entire morning with us looking for our belongings, helping with the police, and reassuring us.

Briggs has been fantastic in ensuring that we feel comfortable here and they even dispatched their security firm to our house to offer suggestions on how to secure it more. Our landlords, The Hungs, are WONDERFUL! We are slowly trying to get back to normal but that may take many months and sleepless nights.