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Olympic sponsors are everywhereWe arrived in China extremely early on Monday morning exhausted after what felt like endless travel. After checking into a cute hostel we crashed for the rest of the day only waking when it was already dark! Refreshed we headed to the infamous East Nanjin Road, the biggest shopping street in China (don't worry Jeanine, Sophie is being good). Even after living and traveling in asia for 3 years, we were wowed by the lights and bustle of it all. The next day we got up at a more resonable hour, and decided to be cultured. We took a trip to the Shanghai Museum and looked around. After feeling sufficient sophisticated (55 mins to be exact), we went to a Korean restaurant for food we've been missing! had a nice sleep (me longer than others), and some walking around. At night we found some of our old stand by favorite soju and drank like we were still in Korea, then headed out to check out the bar scene! Conviently David took us to a bar that was playing the Champions League final (at 3 am), so a quiet night at the pub turned into an all night session....it was crazy the
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In the Shanghai museum there was a special section on past olympics amount of people out till 7 am, and the intensity of the fans..they were fights and tables broken! Needless to say we slept the whole next day venturing out only at night to check out the infamous Bund. It was a beautiful contrast of old and new. We also found a pub that had a Nintendo WII (Dave's dream place) and us girls finally got to see what all the hype was about! It was intense and we were all sore the next day!
Despite our new found love for sleeping all day, this morning we dragged ourselves out of bed at 6 am to go see the Olympic torch pass through the streets. When we got there armed with Starbucks we followed the crowd and stood along the streets in anticipation of the relay passing. It was great to see everyone get so excited, only after, when the bus of torch bearers drove by, did we find out that was all we were going to see from our spot! Tired and a little disapointed, we went to sort out extending our visa, we were confronted by very inpatient workers who wanted to go on break...after half hour we left
Sophie's heaven
The biggest shopping street in China, left Sophie drooling frustrated, hot and tired...turned out that we couldn't get an extension at the time! Sheeplishly we walked back to take the subway only to find it closed at 12pm...not knowing what was going on we followed a crowd of people with flags through a forest onto a street, where to our delight we found out that in one short hour the relay was going to come by!!! So 8 hours later by chance and a little luck we got to see the olympic torch being passed and it was worth every minute of the wait!! Tomorrow we are going to see the Jade Buddha before heading out of Shanghai to Hangzhou! So no one worry we are fine and have an amzing time!xoxox Amo
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Monique Landry
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Hi gang!
You still look like you're having an amazing time out there! I showed your blog to my students and they are amazed! A bunch of Shippagan 9th grader say "Hi". Keep blogging, you now have a bunch of fans! Take care, Monique :)