Phone Call Away....

We've had lots of people ask about calling and/or texting us while we are in Shanghai.  I've spent a ridiculous amount of time figuring this out but I think I have a winning formula!  Here is the breakdown:

• Calee's current phone number will still be in use- I'll be call forwarding all calls to my current number to our home phone in Shanghai.
• We will also have a home phone number in Shanghai with a (503) area code which means no intl' calling rates for you!
• Sarah will have her regular cell phone and possibly a second cell phone for China.
• Calee will have a cell phone, but it'll be a Chinese iphone.  If you call this phone, which will have a crazy china number, you'll pay the big bucks for it!
• Text message from iphone to iphone (called imessage) is free....no intl' rates at all.
• If you don't have an iphone- the application Whatsapp will be needed!

Seems simple, we'll soon find out.

Here is the last piece of information that I'm going to throw out there about phone calls- don't forget the time change!  Here is an easy way to remember, the best times to call would be:

5:00pm-7:00pm Oregon time = 8:00am-10:00am Shanghai time

6:00am-8:00am Oregon time = 9:00pm-10:00pm Shanghai time

Those seem to be good times to call, so it works out pretty well.

Click here to see a rad cover of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" which seems to be a relevant song for this post.....and yes, that my friends is a keytar!!