Shanghai:Day Three

Today we went and walked around the French Concession. The French Concession was the part of the city that the French owned. It was somewhat disappointing, there were supposed to be a lot of old colonial houses and gardens. Instead, there were only about two. The ones we saw were cool and very European-like. When we were walking around, we saw a couple dogs and cats. One of the dogs was a Huskie and belonged to an older man. When he saw me looking in their direction, he came over and motioned to me to take the leash. I took it and my parents took a picture of us. When we were trying to find the French Concession we stumbled onto a nice park with gardens and a fountain. There are motor scooters all over on the sidewalks and we wanted a picture of them. We saw one with two women riding one. I took their picture and they came over and we "talked". They knew no English, and we knew hardly any Chinese. It was fun trying to communicate with them and we laughed a lot. The only problem was we had no idea what they were trying to say and vice versa. After that we had lunch at a very nice dumpling restaurant. Then we went to the Shanghai Aquarium. It was really cool and one part had a moving sidewalk through different places with the water surrounding you. You could look to the right, left, of above and see an amazing animal. This was our last day in Shanghai. Tomorrow we are going to take a train to Su Zhou. It is supposed to have beautiful gardens and is not a big city like Shanghai. I have really enjoyed Shanghai, but we're moving on!

Lianne