Got off the overnight train to Shanghai around 6am. We didn’t know exactly where we were, but we asked one of the guys who didn’t speak English if we were in Shanghai and he nodded so we got off the train. After a quick stop at McDonalds for breakfast, we got a taxi and headed for the ship. It was not in the same spot where we were told it was going to be, so we had to walk several blocks to get there, but it wasn’t too bad. It was funny because each SAS person we met on the way to the ship would tell us we were almost there or say welcome home. It was like we were reaching the end of a race and they were all trying to cheer us up. We must have looked really bad.
We took a break to get lunch on the ship before deciding to head out and explore Shanghai. We got a map from the field office desk and found a taxi. We pointed to a picture of a tower on the map and the taxi driver took us there. The tower was called the Pearl Tower and was both a tourist attraction and a TV tower. We decided to walk around there for a while. We got some boba tea from a shop nearby and went into a fancy mall. They didn’t have a music or bookstore, so there wasn’t too much interesting, but the floor was waxed so much that I would have tried to slide if there weren’t security guards around.
We visited the Apple store and then found a less fancy mall just across the street. This one had a bookstore and a music store. I ended up buying two books. At first I was planning to buy a copy of Shakespeare since I had been wanting to read Much Ado About Nothing for a while, but when I looked inside it several pages of the plays were blank… I found another copy with all of its pages after looking thought a couple more copies.
We got a box of donuts and sat outside eating them for a little while and people watching before heading back to the ship for the night. We ended up hanging out in the nook for a while exchanging pictures watching Top Gear before heading to our cabins for the night.
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