Living in Asia: Shanghai

Photos taken: November 09/ Fotos tomadas: Noviembre 09

With so much going on we are lucky we find time enough to update our blog from time to time. This particular post is actually when we went to Shanghai back in November. We spent Thanksgiving there and let us tell you is was awesome! It definitely is a woman's paradise. It's full of shopping, shopping, and more shopping.

Shanghai has a population of about 15,000,000 while Dalian has a population of almost 7,000,000. So you can imagine how much more crowded Shanghai is vs. Dalian. And oh yes, we experienced that first hand when we took the subway. A massive group of people coming out of the train while another grand mass of people trying to get in. We had to push our way in, no joke. Some of the staff were pushing people in in order to close the doors! Just imagine New York's subway station on steroids. The whole city is super charged compared to New York.

Spanish Translation ( ST) : Con tanto que hacer tenemos suerte que podemos encontrar tiempo para escribir de nuestras experiencias. Este paseo en particular fue en Noviembre. Pasamos el Dia de la Gracias ayi. Y no la pasamos de maravilla, nos encanto. Es el paraiso de la mujer. Puro compra, compras y mas compras.

Shanghai tiene una poblacion de 15,000,000 cuando Dalian solo tiene 7,000,000 personas. So ya se pueden imaginar que tan mas abarrotado es Shanghai comparado con Dalian. De eso nos dimos cuenta cuando tomamo el subway (tren). Avia mucha gente saliendo del tren cuando tambien avia un monton de gente tratando de entrar al tren, ha la misma vez. Teniamos que empujarnos adentro para no perder el tren. Algunos de los trabajadores empujaba gente adentro para poder cerrar las puertas. Nomas imaginense Nueva York en esteroides.

This was our view from our room./ La vista de nuestro cuarto de hotel.

It is very typical to see this in China, buildings with extravagant lighting./ Es muy tipico ver esto en China, edificios con luzes extravagantes.

After dinner we decided to take a walk to Harbor Lake and enjoy the boats passing by, but enjoyment was not an option. We were attacked by so many vendors. They saw foreigners so they ran up to us and started selling anything they could. "Come come, looka looka", is what they would say in English. lol At one point we had 4 vendors and a homeless guy in front of us. We kept saying "Bu yao, bu yao!" ( I don't want, I don't want), but they wouldn't give up. The homeless guy saw that we weren't bugging so he snatched our left over food that we were carrying in our hands from dinner. lol

ST: Despues de cenar fuimos Harbor Lake para mirar los barcos pasar, pero no pudimos disfrutar nada. Fuimos atacados un monton de vendedores. Miraron estranjeros y se vinieron ensima. " Ven ven, mira mira", es lo que decian. En un instante abia 4 vendedores y un señor pidiendo dinero. Nomas deciamos nosotros " Bu yao, bu yao!", (no quiero, no quiero), pero no se hiban. El señor que pedia dinero se fue con comida que nos sobro de la cena. :)

This was outside a very large commercial street. Most of these bikes belong to vendors./ Aqui es una gran calle comercial. La mayoria de las bicicletas le pertenese ha los vendedores.