你好中国: Shanghai Day 1 and 2

Sorry everyone, I tried to make my post go in order, but I ended up getting the day-to-day breakdown in order, but not my trip. I technically started in Beijing, then traveled to Xian, and finally Shanghai! You might want to read from the bottom up, sorry about the confusion!

Thursday, October 1 and Friday, October 2. We arrived in Shanghai around 12:00pm on Thursday (which also happened to be National Day). Sarah and I immediately booked tickets for the Shanghai Acrobats show that night. The show was fabulous! It's crazy the stuff they did, very talented people. We rode the subway back, and let me tell you I think I was in contact with half of the Chinese population that night on the subway! It was packed!! The following day, Sarah and I decided to take a bus out of the city to Suzhou (which is said to be the "Venice of the East.") We never did find this "Venice" and had a pretty hectic day. We decided to go to the General Ambassador's park, which once again was packed with people. We also had a problem at the park with people taking lots of pictures of us and being rude. So, we left pretty quickly from the park and headed towards the water area of suzhou hoping to find a boat ride. Instead we wondered upon a gorgeous park and inside the park we got to go on a 10min gondola ride! All and all the first two days were pretty crazy in Shanghai, and third only get crazier!! haha