The Invasion

So my wife's parents have been in town for about 3 weeks (although based on my blog, you can see that I was away for most of that that time), but the day after I arrived back from Singapore, my friend from the US, Ray, came for a visit. Now the house had my family, my in laws, and Ray, needless to say, our house was pretty full. We set up a nice schedule of touristy stuff to do while he was here in Shanghai, so our first night involved going to the famous pedestrian street, East Nanjing Road. It was a nice introduction to Shanghai in that the street has neon lights all over the place and he got a feel for what the crowds were going to be like during his visit (note that the first week of October is a weeklong holiday here in China).