Jun 19, 2014
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So my hairband was on my wrist when i went to sleep and was on my ankle when i woke up. Totally baffed.
TSS: Chapter 1
The Shanghai Story
So here we go again, same ugly ass carpet, same shoes (albeit 10 times crappier thanks to walking around in Korea. Sadly, this will more than likely be their last adventure).
My "day" started at 3:30am on Tuesday (Vancouver time), I use parenthesis because the day before my travel day and my travel day eventually bled into one mess. the next 48 hours became a blur of trying to find safe places to sleep and bag theifery paranoia.
As always I pray that I,
1. get to sit beside someone relatively sane
2. That they don't smell terrible, and if I'm really pushing my luck
3. that they're pretty.
On my way to San Fran my seat got switched so I had more leg room... but I got put next to the most jacked guy on the plane. We didn't speak, mostly because I wanted to sleep and or, I was afraid he would crush my head.... He had stretch marks like you would not believe.
Apparently at SFO instead of using cars to get around (from what I saw) they all ride fixies ... kinda funny... kinda hipster
After my 5 hour layover in the most overly A/C'ed airport, it was off to Shanghai! Up until now most of my time trying to find places to sleep, but as we started to board the plane the "Oh frick I'm actually going to China" kind of set in.
I totally lucked out for the plane ride to Shanghai, no old ladies behind me kicking my chair, no nasty mouth breathing philistine rolling over his seat onto me, instead I met a fellow photographer. He was part of a group of 18 younglings that went to go tour America for 15 days. We swapped stories and talked about places to go in Shanghai.
*** Just on a side note I am NEVER flying United again... not because of the service or anything but, being stuck on an effing 12 hour flight and having to watch the same freakin tv sucks a monkey's testicle. No outlets for me to plug in my laptop, freakin ZUNE satellite radio that seems to play country on all 13 channels, THIS IS BULL CRAP I DEMAND MY OWN TV. One that doesn't play your pride-and-prejudice-little-house-on-the-prairie-boring-bonnet-wearing-I-pee-in-a-pot-and-fire-muskets movie...haha. But seriously, my own freakin tv you tally wackers, or there will be blood.***
This was the first picture I ever took in Shanghai, followed by HOLY SCHMAO I'm on a fast train. I would have taken pictures out the window of the train (we went by some pretty interesting scenery) BUT! it was really dark out and my exposure would have sucked.
My Girls.
The weather here is deceptively hot. Getting off the plane and errthang was great the air wasn't that bad and I thought I could manage. Getting off the maglev into unprotected china air was a bit of a shock, getting off of the regular train into SUPER china air was like stepping into the amazon exhibit at the aquarium. The best way I can describe the temperature shift is something similar to, swimming in a nice cool pool and every time you surface, you're in a steam room.
Jess Amber
It was very windy in the train station....
It was one of Jess/Amber's friend's birthdays SO i tagged along for dinner. We were initially going to all sit together in one massive group table BUT there were just too many people and we split up. I ended up taking the bullet for the rest of the group and sat at the girl table with a 6:1 ratio. I know, I lead a very, very beleaguered life.
The food was amazing at this place, I had the best egg plant I've ever had in my entire life here, and I am not the biggest fan of egg plant. The only draw back to sitting a table full of girls is that I wasn't REALLY allowed to pig out, can't be messy in front of new people.
They decided to get a little adventurous with the meal plan and we ordered a bowl of frog legs.
Being the gentleman that I am, I let Jess go first, she seemed to survive so I took a shot at it.
Oh....eff.
The verdict: It wasn't bad, frog legs have the consistency of fish but tastes closer to chicken (what ever that means). In the picture to the right Monica realized that I'd whipped out my large camera and asked what I did for a living.
Are you a photographer? Yes. Really? Yes. You? Yes.
I knew I was in a bit of trouble after I started to hallucinate at dinner, it was time to get some water and some sleep SO we made our way home. This simple task turned out to be much more troublesome than previously imagined, as the subway was shutting down left and right. We managed to get closer to home and Taxi'd the rest of the way. I gave him 20RMB and he gave me change... that is the equivalent of a 3(CND) dollar taxi ride, I love you Shanghai. lets see what tomorrow brings.