You know a trip has been bad if you come home and look forward to mowing the lawn. I have spent the past two days trying to get home, starting at 7am Saturday in Shanghai and now I’m home, the equivalent of noon on Monday. I. Am. Tired. And yet I’m still awake, so here I am posting my last batch of photos.
My last night in Shanghai was wonderfully uneventful. I was able to spend the morning following the Missouri softball team in the Women’s College World Series. Their game went 13 innings and lost on a walk-off home run, the only run of the game. The women had a good year, improving on the great year they had last year.
But did I just digress? I guess I should go to bed.
Ok, let’s just go to the photos. If they don’t have captions, they will later.
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- Cool old amphitheater with lots of white pidgeons.
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- Lots of interesting modern architecture in Shanghai. I heard the building on the left called the “bottle opener.”
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- Feeding the pidgeons and goldfish at the amphitheater.
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- Who stacks cars two wide on a car carrier?
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- This is the Chinese symbol for “convergence.”
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- This woman and her dog were at one of the toursit sites. The dog fetches a rock. And barks in Chinese. Just kidding about the barking.
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- Our fearless leader, Ernest Zhang, right, translating for the group of broadcast journalists.
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- REAL loose tea!
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- Who decided that pounding on the feet was good for them??
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- Just a nice scenic in Nanjing.
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- The glass floor is below the big ball, the white ring.
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- The glass floor in the Oriental Pearl television tower. I had to walk on it, but boy, it’s scary.
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- Feeding some huge goldfish at the amphitheater.
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- The view from my hotel in Nanjing.
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- Heading up to Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s mausoleum. Unfortunately, it was closed.
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- RJI Futures Lab Director Mike McKean giving a lesson.
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- Nanjing skyline
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- Yes, there is still a “one child” rule.
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- Inside the Oriental Pearl television tower.
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- Traffic on the river in Shanghai. That weird building on the left is the Oriental Pearl television tower.
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- Scott Libin was one of our, um, experts. That’s a little inside joke. Ask him about it.
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- Scott Schaefer during the foot massage.
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- Scott Shaefer, foreground, at dinner.
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- The finale of our foot massages: all five workers pounded on our feet in synchronization. Yes, some of it hurt.
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- Shanghai skyline from Oriental Pearl television tower, from the 1,148 ft. observation tower.
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- The stage at the amphitheater
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- Traffic circle seen from the Oriental Pearl television tower, from the 1,148 ft. observation tower.
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- View from my hotel room of a crew of men washing windows. You see a lot of manual labor jobs being done in China. Myabe window washer is higher paying than some of the others.
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- A man writes his ideas on a white board during a work session on improving the television station’s website.
