Edward & family in China

April 9th was Bob's birthday. We both had 8:00 o'clock classes that morning. After classes I left Bob on his own to celebrate his birthday and I went by train to Shanghai where I met Edward and family. Bob couldn't come to Shanghai because he had two classes on Friday.

Edward and some of his children and I went to Pizza Hut for supper. They were all very tired after traveling from Calgary and Miranda was already asleep at the hotel.

Next day we visited some of the sights of Shanghai in our rented 17 passenger van. (We had a driver as well as the van.)

Our first stop was Yu Yuan Gardens with a dragon around one of the walls.


We spent a few hours on Nanjing Road, but didn't do any shopping. We ate at Subway and had ice cream treats at Hagen Daaz.

There were a few people on Nanjing Road that day.

We walked along the Bund viewing the high buildings on the other side of the Huangpu river and watching the boats travel down the river.

The most excitement we had that day was when the driver took us to the railway station. He tried to drive us down under the station where the taxis drop off and pick up. When he got part way down he decided that the extended van wouldn't fit under the entrance. Can you imagine wanting to back out with five hundred taxis behind. There were some loud words exchanged by our driver and a few other people.

We arrived in Nanjing in the evening.

Nanjing University North Gulou Campus

This afternoon we paid a visit to the Hongshan Zoo expecting to see the Pandas. Well the Pandas were on a trip to Shanghai, so we missed them. We saw White Tigers, tigers, panthers, Lynx, wolves, and monkeys.

The zoo is a very beautiful place which winds around a mountain. (I was going to say hill, but after having walked to the pagoda at the top I decided it was a mountain.)

Monkey enclosure with a monkey on top of the pole and pagoda in background

Miranda at the zoo

The zoo has a section with a ferris wheel and many other rides. We didn't go on any of the rides because we didn't have enough time (or maybe didn't want to spend the money).

There were people flying kites outside the zoo.

Tonight we went out and had hotpot for supper.