photo update

Here's a quick photo update on our first day in Shanghai.  

When we first got to the hotel, we spent a few minutes in the dark, clicking the switches on and off trying for figure out how the power works... we finally found out that the key card is the magnetic power switch for the entire room, once you remove the card, the power goes out.. pretty interesting.

Bathroom photo, nothing too interesting... (side note for my brother, the water goes counter clock wise in the toilet...)

The rest of the room with Vincent checkin out his facebook.... it's been a nice stay, the room service is absolutely amazing - we asked one of the men for something and he actually ran to bring back our request.  Aside from that it took an entire day of button pressing to get our heater to work.. 

Although it took a few hours to get motivated, we finally set off for our first adventure around the town. The lack of motivation was mostly because the day was fairly grey, cold and misty - but we finally set off and explored for an hour.  It seems difficult to get lost as the roads are gridded well and easy to follow (and Pete has made the McDonald's the official location to find our way back)... There wasn't much to fear walking around, except the vast amounts of cars, bikes and motorized bikes that have no awareness of pedestrians.. or maybe they do and just don't care.  So it was a good lesson for being aware of your surroundings.

The building in the back ground is the Pagoda, I'm not sure of the purpose or if there is historical value to it, but it was neat.

I didn't feel comfortable photographing on the busy streets yet (something about looking like a tourist that I'm not a fan of) but this was a building on a side road that I was drawn to.

As I'm typing - there has been a fire work display going for the past hour... and they go off one on top of the other.  Pete isn't quite sure what the celebration is for let alone if this is going to be a nightly event - part of me hopes that it is, it could be a great night event to go and see what is going on. 

edit : the fire works have lasted 4 hours and at this point we hope its the only night this party happens.