Shanghai Adventures

** okay, so this is part 2 of the below post :) Again, it was typed before, but I guess I forgot to publish it! Don't forget to read the post below for aaaallll the info on my China experience!**

So what to do in Shanghai?
A tour of Shanghai! Let's see.... we went to a silk factory and learned about the silk-making process. We also went to a pearl store.... they get like 30 pearls from one oyster! We also visited a Buddhist Temple where they had these two really famous (according to them) white jade Buddhas. They had a tea show there where they made tea for us too. Another place they took us was an old Chinese Garden. So these Gardens are pretty amazing. The entire household of the family living there is spread in sections throughout the garden.  

The entire garden is completely man-made including the lake and the hill. They say that in a proper garden no matter where you point your camera, you should have a perfect picture. Oh, in case you were wondering... of course there were koi fish :)
Anyway, so another day in Shanghai, I went with my mom and my brother to the zoo. It was huge! So they had most of the normal animals you would find there and all, plus some pandas, of course, but they also had dogs. A LOT of dogs. They had every sort of dog pet that you could imagine there... it was so strange!
Another cool thing about Shanghai: The pearl TV Tower. The say it is higher than the Eiffel tower.... I'll let them be the judge of that, but it was certainly more interesting in many aspects.... it had a glass floor, for one thing!

That's right....epic!
Okay, so let's see.... another day I went to a small, old river town. Now let me just flush that out.... when I say old in Florida, I think of St Augustine.... oldest city in the USA, right? Well that does NOT compare to these old cities in China!!! I mean, their museum stuff dates back to B.C!

Well, so those are some of the things that are most memorable from my Shanghai trip! It was a good trip, but I would not want to live there! Its an expensive place to live in, and there are just too many people. Did you know that most of the people take at least an hour to get to work and another hour to get back... and that's AT LEAST an hour, not most!.... many people take even longer!  No thanks!

Well, that's all for now.... but remember to read the post below if you haven't!... there's more China there too :)