Dan knew how badly I wanted to learn to make some chinese dumplings, so when I woke up, some of the house staff was ready to teach me to make jiao zi! It was really fun. It was a pork dumpling with lots of cabbage, and they boil the dumplings after making them. The hardest part was learning to fold the dumplings correctly! Tim came in to try, and learned really fast, but I had a harder time. After eating some of the dumplings for lunch, we biked to a shoe store that has lots of nice shoes for really cheap. There were a bunch of french people in the store buying 4 or 5 pairs of shoes each! Normally the shoes go for 80 or more dollars, but here they were like 2 or 3 bucks. Very cheap! After we waited for the french people to finish up and leave, Timmy went in and bought himself some nice cheap shoes. On the bike ride home, we stopped at Dan's campus (where he has been studying Chinese) and went to a dumpling place he frequents to have more ziao ling bao! I was so excited! These were even better than the ones we had at the yu yuan gardens. We also got some delicious bubble tea, and sat on a bench in the shade watching people while drinking. After a while, Dan had to head to class, and Tim and I biked home on our own.
This was our last full day in China, and we really wanted to get up high and see Shanghai from above. There is an observatory on the top of the tower in Pudong that looks like a bottle opener, but it was really expensive. Dan told us that you could go almost as high as the observatory in the same building by going to the bar of one of the hotels in the building. We figured that we'd spend less money on some drinks, actually get drinks, and look at the view from the bar! When we got home, we changed into the nicer clothes that we had, and headed out to take the metro into Pudong! We were slightly baffled at first as to how to get into the hotel section of the building, but after we walked around, we found the entrance. We had to put all of our bags through an xray machine, and walk through a metal detector...they do that a lot in Shanghai, including every time you go into the metro. We took the very fast elevator up to the bar, and got a table near the window! The view was pretty great, but I never realized how much pollution there is. I had known that I had a sore throat, and that it was bothering me, but I didn't realize how much SMOG there was. Wow! Tim ordered some alcoholic drink, and I ordered an apple juice. It was one of those times where you get exactly what you want, but not what you're expecting. I was expecting an amber colored apple juice like we have in America, but I got actual, fresh squeezed juice from a granny smith apple. I didn't like it.
We relaxed and watched the view for a while, but there was a very rude couple that wanted our exact table and was standing nearby staring us down. We tried to make our drinks last a long time because of how rude they were being, but eventually it got on our nerves and we left. It was fun! On the way home, I grabbed some coffee at a Starbucks, and we spent a little time wandering around Pudong. When we tired, we took the metro back home and relaxed for the night. We tried to stay up late so that we'd be tired when we got to the airport in the morning so we could sleep on the plane, but I couldn't. I fell asleep early! Yay, Shanghai!
This was our last full day in China, and we really wanted to get up high and see Shanghai from above. There is an observatory on the top of the tower in Pudong that looks like a bottle opener, but it was really expensive. Dan told us that you could go almost as high as the observatory in the same building by going to the bar of one of the hotels in the building. We figured that we'd spend less money on some drinks, actually get drinks, and look at the view from the bar! When we got home, we changed into the nicer clothes that we had, and headed out to take the metro into Pudong! We were slightly baffled at first as to how to get into the hotel section of the building, but after we walked around, we found the entrance. We had to put all of our bags through an xray machine, and walk through a metal detector...they do that a lot in Shanghai, including every time you go into the metro. We took the very fast elevator up to the bar, and got a table near the window! The view was pretty great, but I never realized how much pollution there is. I had known that I had a sore throat, and that it was bothering me, but I didn't realize how much SMOG there was. Wow! Tim ordered some alcoholic drink, and I ordered an apple juice. It was one of those times where you get exactly what you want, but not what you're expecting. I was expecting an amber colored apple juice like we have in America, but I got actual, fresh squeezed juice from a granny smith apple. I didn't like it.
We relaxed and watched the view for a while, but there was a very rude couple that wanted our exact table and was standing nearby staring us down. We tried to make our drinks last a long time because of how rude they were being, but eventually it got on our nerves and we left. It was fun! On the way home, I grabbed some coffee at a Starbucks, and we spent a little time wandering around Pudong. When we tired, we took the metro back home and relaxed for the night. We tried to stay up late so that we'd be tired when we got to the airport in the morning so we could sleep on the plane, but I couldn't. I fell asleep early! Yay, Shanghai!
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