After about 21 hours of travel we finally made it to Shanghai on Saturday where we were welcomed by Pat and Michelle (and Mr. Shu). Rather than sleep we powered through the day, first stopping for lunch, margaritas and bootleg DVD's at a shockingly good Mexican restaurant. Afterwards we spent a few hours relaxing in the Pat and Michelle's amazing apartment in the Pudong district, which is near the famous Bund and surrounded by 80+ story buildings, before heading out for a Chinese dinner followed by drinks at Sasha's.
Sunday was another productive day where we went about an hour outside of Shanghai to Zhouzhang for a walk around it's water town (akin to Venice on an older, smaller scale) where we learned several important lessons from Pat like: 1)check the tops of water bottles to make sure they weren't filled with untreated tap water and glued together; 2)wash utensils and plates in hot tea water before using, 3)Mao Zedong oversaw the creation of some really creepy propoganda videos, and 4)Chinese really love pork knuckles. After this was delivery for dinner (they have a service here called Sherpa which will pick up take-out from about any restaurant and bring it to you for 14 chinese yuan, or $2) and finally a long nights sleep. 13 hours to be exact.
Regarding these posts, we will unfortunately not be able to add pictures until we get to Australia. Websites that allow people to blog are blocked over here so we are using a virtual private network to get around it, unfortunately our pictures are on our phone and not this computer. We will let you know when the pictures have been updated and they will be worth looking at as this city is visually very interesting and just the view from the apartment we are staying in is spectacular.
Sunday was another productive day where we went about an hour outside of Shanghai to Zhouzhang for a walk around it's water town (akin to Venice on an older, smaller scale) where we learned several important lessons from Pat like: 1)check the tops of water bottles to make sure they weren't filled with untreated tap water and glued together; 2)wash utensils and plates in hot tea water before using, 3)Mao Zedong oversaw the creation of some really creepy propoganda videos, and 4)Chinese really love pork knuckles. After this was delivery for dinner (they have a service here called Sherpa which will pick up take-out from about any restaurant and bring it to you for 14 chinese yuan, or $2) and finally a long nights sleep. 13 hours to be exact.
Regarding these posts, we will unfortunately not be able to add pictures until we get to Australia. Websites that allow people to blog are blocked over here so we are using a virtual private network to get around it, unfortunately our pictures are on our phone and not this computer. We will let you know when the pictures have been updated and they will be worth looking at as this city is visually very interesting and just the view from the apartment we are staying in is spectacular.
No comments:
Post a Comment