Shanhgai Finale

When we boarded the plane for Shanghai I had fairly mild expectations, not because I wasn't excited to visit China, but because the trip had already been rescheduled twice and I'd gotten in the habit of assuming it might not happen at all. Even if I had sat day dreaming of panda bears, chow mein, and firecrackers, I would have been disappointed because we didn't see any of those things.

We did however,  see a host of other things that I have yet to describe. And so, before I start posting pictures of our time in Beijing, I thought I would round things out with the following pictures, which include; a sign that I liked, a jazz club that we found ourselves at, a fencing match that I attended in my complimentary Baolong Home Hotel slippers, and a wall made out of recycled suitcases. These are all actually things that I fully expected to see-- it was so obvious.