Tom & Liz come for the weekend
Trip Start
Jul 06, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 25, 2008
Shanghai,
China
Sunday, August 10, 2008
On the second night I could not sleep so I came out to yell at them. It got very quiet after that and I thought how considerate they were being and tried to get back to sleep. Well, come morning I find out that they went into the little maid closet that is connected to the kitchen. This was done so that they could still shout on the phone but not wake us up
Open containers are A-Okay in China.
. The room is about the size of a bathroom and has a window leading out to a ledge. They hung out in there for about an hour drinking more beer and calling old friends. When they decided to leave the maid's closet they discovered that the door had locked automatically and they were locked inside. Thankfully they had the cell phone. So Ryan started calling the apartment's land line. I remember laying in bed thinking to myself, 'when is this night going to end? Why can't they stop it already with all these damn phone calls? Arg!' But, of course I just laid there and ignored it. Well, luckily, Liz had a phone in her bedroom, so she could not ignore it as well. She came marching out intending to tell them to knock it off and found no one here. Then she heard their stifled yells and pounding from the maid's closet and let them out. Of course, had they not had their phone with them I am quite sure they would have crawled out on that ledge and tried to knock on the bedroom windows from 21 floors up. If it was not for girls I do not think boys would survive much past the age of ten.We went cruising around Shanghai on Friday. Saw the Bund, and went to Antique World. Narrow streets with vendors selling a bunch of little things like statues of Buddhas and jewelry and tons of other junk. Liz and I found some beautiful jade bracelets. We love them! We went to a place called Lost Heaven for dinner that was amazing
Ryan is a Chinaman now.
. After dinner we went to a Canadian sports bar and watched the opening ceremonies for the Olympics. Saturday, I spent the day recovering because I had not slept the night before (I think you can figure out how that might have happened.) They pulled it together enough to check out The Jade Buddha Temple and Old Town. Later that night we all went to meet up with Florence and Tracy for dinner. On the way to dinner Ry and Tom spotted some local Chinese guys practicing the long jump on the sidewalk. It was pretty damn cute. They were taking turns jumping and marking how far they could jump. They are all very excited here for the Olympics. Tom decided to get involved and they let him jump too! Florence and Tracy picked the place for dinner and it was a very local Chinese joint. The entire meal for all 6 of us, with beer, came to about 30 US dollars. Crazy! The food wasn't too bad but, unfortunately for our wallets, I prefer Lost Heaven.
After dinner Ryan, Tom and Liz went out to Puxi to find some bar called Windows that apparently has all drinks for RMB10 which is about $1.50. I chose to head home and go to bed. Right now they are all sleeping and I am having my tea. It has been a fun weekend but I think we all need to rest and give our livers a break for a few days.
I hope you enjoy the pictures!
