Our last day in Shanghai was great. We caught the train back... again it was a near miss with a bit of running. I really must admit we have done a great job communicating in every way possible other than Chinese with these people, but it seems like although we do get by, sometimes it is just barely.
Back in Shanghai we checked back into the YMCA... we had a reservation elsewhere but for simplicity sake we stayed where it's fun to stay. After wandering for about 45 min on Nanjing Donglu (blvd.) for a Dim Sum place we quieted our rumbling stomaches with some pretty good dim sum. This we called dinner #1 as it was a very late lunch. We walked down the Nanjing and window shopped as we went. Kate bought be some great Baleno polo shirts in pink, blue, and green (Baleno is a chinese brand with a really cool whale for an emblem).
We made it all the way to the Bund, which is a long riverside walk looking out to the financial district of Pudong with huge sky scrapers and the Pearl Orient TV Tower. On the walk back we had dinner #2 at Ramen Soup shop (its a Chinese chain).
We then hopped on the metro and made it to Circus world just in time for our 7:30 show. It was an amazing sight and we were captivated the whole time, ooohing and aaaweing uncontrollably with the feats of the chinese acrobats, tumblers, contortionists, and magicians. It was a great show with a finale of 7 motorcyclists entering a huge metal sphere and doing elaborate high-speed manouvers while nearly missing eachother. Hard to explain, most likely even harder to execute.
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