Shanghai (part 2) and Guangzhou

The next day we ended up going to The Bund and looking around Shanghai.  There is some really neat architecture and buildings there. Don’t ask why there is a big chicken on the building

We got to Guangzhou and went to the fair.  It was huge and full of interesting things.  Here is a map and I tried to get a picture of the booths, but none really turned out.

The Asian games are in Guangzhou and so all of the subways and buses were free.  There were so many people that they had to gate people in and move them as groups.

It was a wonderful trip even the long train rides!

I love him!

We then took a 27-hour train ride to Guangzhou to go to the Canton Fair.

Some pictures of the train and the beds we stayed in.

The lock for the bathroom

Shanghai (part 1)

Road Trip, I mean train trip!!! The World Expo happened to be in Shanghai and was ending October 31^st.  Landon really wanted to go so just a few days before it ended; we bought 17-hour train tickets to Shanghai!

No trip would be complete without a bathroom picture.  The squatter is actually open to the track and you can see it as it moves.

After a night on the train we arrived early in the morning in Shanghai, got a hotel, and went straight to the World Expo. It was huge.  Instead of HOV lanes there were EXPO driver lanes.

USA BABY!!

Some of the outsides of the Pavilions

Inside of multiple pavilions

  

There were so many people; actually there are always so many people everywhere in China.

We tried to hit up lots of the pavilions, but there were some lines that were 6 hours long.  Even if there were no lines, I think it is impossible to go and visit all of them in one day.  Here are some pictures at the end of the day with the buildings and bridges that have changing lights.

We were so tired by the end of the day and our feet hurt so badly.  We were ready to go back to the hotel to sleep!