The Second Day - The Release

Just to note, the second day of the trip is Friday. We headed out early in the morning to go into Lujiazui, which is the downtown financial district in Shanghai. Basically when you see any images of Shanghai, you will see the buildings located in Lujiazui including the Oriental Pearl Tower (balls on a stick building) and Jin Mao Tower (tallest hotel in the world). We walked along the riverside walkway, looked across the river and took some pictures of the Bund area across the river. We then decided to rough the dangerous white water of the Huangpu River via Ferry to get the Puxi side of town (the downtown area). Actually for about 10 US cents you can travel across the river on ferry and see the great sites while traveling on boat, pretty neat.

We went to Yu Yuan or Yu Garden, this place is surrounded by a bunch of shops that sell trinkets and fake antiques (does anyone want a Mao lighter for $3 bucks). The rents were pretty amazed with this place and all the people, they especially liked the Starbucks in the Yu Bazaar that was in this old Chinese style building. We then headed towards the actual garden, just my aunt and I went into the garden, as my parents wanted to stay outside with our daughter Maddie. The picture above is from the garden, it was a really nice garden, one of the better ones that I have seen in China, and one of the best in all of Shanghai.

While in the garden I got the call, the hospital was set to release Renee. So we piled into a cab and headed over to the hospital for the release. Renee was ecstatic to be getting out of the hospital (the hospital didn't have TV, not that she watches a lot of TV, but there is only so much you can do while you're sitting around in pain). Anyway, she enjoyed her first whiff of the pungent polluted air and smiled (actually once you've been here for a year, you get used to the toxins flying through the air). So we took it easy in the evening to help Renee relax some.