Shanghai Day 1

Last Friday we had to go to Shanghai, Kyle had to go to customs to fill out some paperwork to try to get our shipment that we sent from the US.  They are holding our stuff and threatening to confiscate it due to whatever issues they have regarding our paperwork/belongings.  Anyway, pretty sure it is going to come down to money and who we need to pay off but we will see. 

We left early on Friday so that Kyle could go with the company Logistics guy and the translator to the airport to fill out all the paperwork.  We decided to stay in Shanghai for the weekend to see the sights.  After Kyle got back to the hotel we went out to see downtown Shanghai.  Shanghai has a population of about 20,000,000 people about 500,000 expats live there.  It is actually a really cool city, we had a great time seeing the sights.  There were Europeans and American's all over the place so we didn't have our usual fan clubs following us around which was actually really nice.  The girls still had to take pictures with several people but it wasn't as overwhelming as it is in Huzhou.  Also nice was all the English, most of the restaurants had English on their menu's which makes ordering a lot less risky :)

 Shanghai World Financial Center, this is currently the tallest building in the world, but right behind it they are building a new building that is supposed to be even taller

 This is the Oriental Pearl Tower

 This is our driver and Madi, she sat in the front a lot.  It will be weird going back to the states where they use not only seatbelts but carseats!

 Pretty excited about life right now...

 Peace.  They all give you the peace sign when they take their pictures... They do it in Korea too, not sure what that is all about

 The city goes on and on, it is pretty incredible to see and really hard to capture just how big it is on camera

 We took a ferry across the river.  The girls loved it!

 This is our new friend, he is from Switzerland

 Kaylie is hiding behind me, a bunch of people wanted pictures with them on the boat so she was kinda over it

 This is called The Bund.  This famous waterfront walkway has been Shanghai's center since the mid 1800's.  There are tons of cool colonial structures along this side and a view of downtown Shanghai across the river

This says it all :)

 Kyle and I wonder how many places around the world we can capture pictures of these two running.

 We stayed until it got dark to see the lights.  Totally worth it.

This is the Russian Consulate.

After we got done seeing the sights we went to a shopping mall, which was amazing, and ate dinner at California Pizza.  The girls were in heaven.  We got two large pizza's and the 3 of them ate 1 and a half of the pizza's.  It was crazy!