So as you can see, I got a slideshow up and working on this site (although not without a lot of time and effort), but it's a little bit small, so if you'd like to see larger pictures, go here.
We went to Hangzhou on Monday, and stayed at Eric's uncle's apartment (this is a different uncle). I didn't know what there was to do in Hangzhou, so Cherry and Eric just took me around to a few different places, including some markets and a beautiful park on a lake. We also met up with Tracey and a few of her friends; it was nice to see her again so we could say goodbye properly.
Tuesday held much of the same, and Wednesday morning we left for a day trip to Shanghai. As most of you probably know, it is the largest city in China (a good deal larger than NYC), and so this was a different experience to our time in Hangzhou. The city is very westernized, and there wasn't anything particularly historic that we went to see, most of it had its analogue in the West. Later, we had dinner with a former teacher of Eric's, an eccentric New Zealander who I came to like a great deal, and then we took a late train back to Hangzhou.
Thursday was a travel day, as we had a flight to Beijing, which ended up getting delayed for several hours because of fog. Today, we went shopping in the morning and worked on some loose ends in the afternoon, including sorting through all the pictures (there were a lot) and picking the better ones to upload, as well as tabulating some expenses.
We may go to the Great Wall tomorrow, and I will upload more photos as they are taken. Good night.
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