Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Shanghai
We started out our first day in Shanghai with umbrella's and raincoats. Darn rain. The city has really cleaned up all the buildings, fixed all the roads, subways, and everything in preparation for the 2010 World Expo going on right now. It is like a huge World's Fair, and yet another attempt by China to show the world they have grown up and are a modern country and city. We are going there today.
We went to a silk factory, where they seperate the strands, that make the thread, that get spun into.... (you get the picture). Very nice tour, and we walked out of there with some fine silk products.
The river front (The Bund) is where Shanghai began back in the British days, and it is still the hub for the city. Just across the river is the Pudong district. All farmland 30 years ago, but a couple of bridges, and now some tunnels, and turned the framers into millionaires, and the land into skyscrapers.
We ended the day going to an amazing Chinese acrobatic show. No pictures allowed, and jugglers, balancing acts, and gymnasts, were all great.
