China Trip - Shanghai

Our final leg of the trip was in the very-modern city of Shanghai!

Here we go!

We rode a high speed choo-choo (as Charlie would say) from the airport:

"Weeee"

Charlie's two favorite things

We went next to the World Financial Center, the second tallest building in the world:

World's second tallest building

Cool views

The next tallest building is being built next door

A visit to the Jade Budda Temple.  We couldn't take pictures of the Jade Budda but it was pretty cool:

The Jade Budda Temple

There were some fish there

Then to learn about silk:

How silk is made

James trying his hand stretching the silk

So a few people drive motorcycles here

Yu Garden:

Outside the Yu Garden

Fish petting with Simon

Inside the Yu Garden (we are starting to look tired)

We had some more school visits the next day:

Visiting a teaching college

Visiting an elementary school

Cutie-pies

English class.  "Excuse me, how do I get to Starbucks?"

That night we took a boat ride to see the city sky-line.  It was amazing (the pictures don't capture it):

The Bund

Pretty shot of the moon

On our last day, it finally rained.  Boy were we lucky the prior 11 days!  This is what the same skyline looked like in the nasty weather (it is fog, not pollution) as we explored the Bund:

Coffee and dessert at New Heights

Our last picture. Posing like many of the Chinese tourists we saw :)