First Day in Shanghai

Today was our first day in shanghai and it was awesome. First we just walked around the city for a little while. We went to a five floor clothing store and it was very funny when you saw something that was translated into English because it made hardly any sense at all. There was a whole story that had been translated into english and not a word of it made any sense. After exploring the city we went to a Buddhist temple it was very interesting we got to see all the statues of their gods. The monks walked throughout the temple ignoring the tourists. This temple was also very famous because it holds the famous Jade buddha. Sorry we weren't allowed to take pictures inside the chamber. The temple also had a Koi pond the koi were huge there was one that was probably 2 and a half feet long. We also saw people praying with incense which they light in a huge fire in the middle of the temple. After we left the temple we attempted to catch a cab but were unsuccesful and eventually a beggar came up and started asking us for money in chinese i shook my head no and tried to communicate that i was not going to give him money. He did not listen he stood there hitting my pocket with his cup for about 2 minutes until he finnally moved onto the rest of my family. WE finally caught a cab and came back to the hotel then we walked to a restaurant jusst down the street. The food was pretty good they gave us free Green Tea Pudding with beans on the top. Then after dinner we came back to the hotel and now im typing my blog. Its only 7 pm but my whole family including me are jetlagged and it feels like its 2 am. alright i'm gonna go to bed now ill type more tomorrow.



~Kellan~