Saturday, July 28, 2007 -
Arrival in Shanghai
Whew! After a 12 and a half hour flight I'm finally in China! The person next to me on the plane was really helpful and led me around the immigration/customs area so that was a relief. Once I got outside.. ugh. It was a horrible wave of heat! I went to find a taxi and these two weirdos tried telling me that the taxis were upstairs... yeah right.. GYPSY TAXIS!!! But I knew better and told them to go away then went to where the real taxis are and got an awesome driver who honked and flashed his lights at people in his way. Our small talk? I said it was hot out and he said yeah.. hot. air conditioner good? ... except all in Chinese. And that's all we said! But luckily he wasn't a swindler or anything, he had the meter running and even jumped out of the cab and asked around to make sure he took me to the right address and he also called ahead for me! So nice!!!
Well, the hostel is in this like 2 foot alley, but when you see it, it's actually really nice! I came in and the woman at the desk handed me a note that Christina left for me saying she's waiting for me at the bar/restaurant thing inside. I quickly checked in and rounded the corner and saw my darling clacking away on her computer. We hugged and squealed and put our stuff in the room and then went to find something to eat. We picked a nearby Thai restaurant that had some pretty nummy food and just got back to the hostel where we're typing away! This place is pretty chill, lotsa young people (hippies!) and there's a pirated copy of 28 Weeks Later playing. Scary! I don't want nightmares, so we'll probably head up to our room now and get ready for tomorrow where I promise will actually have pictures!!
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