A few times, we'll be typing away, and all of a sudden, everything just disappears. So I want to go ahead and finish off a post once in awhile before it disappears!
Anyway, I've never been very interested in big cities, and Shanghai is the biggest of the big cities in my book. It's just too big to take in. So I don't try very hard.
The drive to Hangzhou today took 3 hours. Lemon said it was a waste of time (she's very blunt) but who doesn't love a road trip in a foreign country?? It took 1 hour just to get out of Shanghai. Then another hour to go across the "countryside". Um. Not a single moment of open land. EVERYwhere you look there are buildings. Even when there are rice paddies everywhere, there are buildings among them. It may take getting WAY out of the cities to see what we would think of as a "farm house". The farmers here live in high-rise apartments.
Two observations while driving: no screens on windows, but windows open. Yikes. And, expanding clothes racks outside every apartment, all the way up 20-30 floors!! Clothes flapping in the breeze everywhere. I liked it! But man, clip on that pair of undies or you'll never see it again!
A couple scary moments in driving: stopping suddenly on the freeway, pondering a left turn. Bus, then car, then truck bearing down. Pupils dilating. Mouths hanging open in silent panic. Also, merging is an art form. We likened it to a dance. But as Jenna said, "it would be better choreographed". It's how-you-say? Improv!
We taught our guide a few words today: tandem. Missouri.
And a few phrases: "Not for all the tea in China" and "No, Bill Clinton is from Arkansas"
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Tee-hee!
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