First Day

Hey everyone from China, I won't be able to blog much because it's blocked. I'm emailing this to Cally and then she is copying and pasting it to my blog. Shanghai took 14/1/2 hours on a plane to get here but I think it's the greatest city I've ever been to. There are 20 million people here, twice the size of NYC. Most of the areas we are in have been built in the last 20 years. It's very clean and the people are friendly. We walked down one of the main shopping streets last night and looked across the river to what looked something like Manhatten. There were skyscrappers all around us with neon lights, very beautiful. We are staying at the Pacific Hotel one of ten of the historic ones here, built in 1928. The food is great. Every table has a lazy susan in the middle the they put the food in the middle and we spin. This morning we went to a 400 year old garden. Then to lunch, a Methodist Church and a Buddhist temple, to a pearl store where we saw them crack open the oyster, then to a silk factory. Dinner and then an Acrobatic show. WOW what a day. Every minute is so new and exciting. The colors, smells and sounds. Jimmy is our tour guide and knows so much information that he shares with us. Tommorow we are going to the greatest museum in China. Then we are going to the World Expo. It is like the World's Fair. It will only be open for 6 months and they have spent years getting ready for it. We'll spend 6-8 hours there. We fly out the next day. I'll try to post again as soon as I can