We found ourselves awake early, as usual, on Monday morning, and eating breakfast at the table while reading the newspapers. Dan had classes in the morning, so after we'd eaten our fill we got ready and set out to the metro. We took the metro to People's Park, and when we got off the metro we decided we'd walk to the museum outside, rather than through the tunnels like Dan had taken us. It turned out to be a lot more difficult to walk outside because they don't let you cross the streets in that location of the city; you have to walk through the tunnels to get underneath the streets. It's kind of a pain in the butt because this is a huge park, and anytime you want to get anywhere you have to go under tunnels? You end up walking a lot more because all of the tunnels are on one side of the park...so if you came out on the east side and wanted to go somewhere on the east side, you still had to walk to the west side to get to the tunnels and then back through the park. We figured it out eventually and we were walking through the park when these two chinese girls came up to us and started talking to us in english. They seemed nice, which was a little weird because chinese people pay no attention to us other than staring at us because we are big and white. We just said hi, and they started asking us where we had gone, and telling us places we should go in Shanghai. We were kind of suspiciuos so we were watching all of our belongings. All of a sudden, a black car pulls up behind us, a driver runs out of the car, grabs the two girls, and throws them into the backseat roughly. We were pretty thrown off, and the driver guestured at us to go about what we had been doing...so we kept walking? It really threw us off, so when other people approached us to talk, we just hurried on our way. We also checked and made sure we still had all of our money and our passports just in case it was a pickpocketing scam. We had everything, so we decided to stop at a little vendor for an ice cream and head over to the Shanghai Museum.
The museum was free, which is always nice! There were a lot of exhibits on pieces of chinese history including jade, porcelain, coins and currency, traditional masks and clothing, seals, painted scrolls, and other such things. There was also an exhibit on Matteo Ricci. They allowed photography in most exhibits, so there are a few things for you to take a look at!
We wandered through all of the exhibits offered at the Shanghai Museum, and eventually wandered out. We took the metro home to wait for Dan to finish with classes, and read our books for a while. When Dan got home, we all hopped onto the bikes and biked through the city to the bund. We biked through a street that had a lot of musical stores, so Tim went into a few and played pianos. We spent a few hours biking around and through the city, which was a lot of fun. It was really hot and humid, though, so we stopped a few times to buy drinks! In China, you can drink alcohol in the streets, so the second time we stopped for drinks, Tim and Dan came out of the 7-11 drinking beer! On the way home, we walked through the campus that Dan is taking his classes at. It was a pretty ugly campus...it looked like a jail. We got back on the roads and biked among the scooter armada to get back to the house.
Dinner was some sort of sweet and sour chicken that was served with a bowl filled with bacon, peas, green beans, and mushrooms.
Then I fell asleep.
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