Today I met up with my friend Heather, who is staying at a different hostel and we went to the Yuyuan gardens. No one else was awake when I left at 10.30am (a lot of people were out the night before) We took the subway and walked through the Yu Yuan Bazaar, an old style shopping street that all of the buildings are an old style called Ming-Dynasty. The streets were so busy with people pushing and shoving to get through so it took a while to get through the crowds. The Yu Yuan gardens were really pretty and it wasn’t anywhere near as busy as the streets outside it. The Yu gardens are apparently the best example of a traditional Suzhou garden to be found in Shanghai.
After the gardens we took an open top tour bus around the finance district which was good to get our bearings of the city, it was really cold and windy. It was one of the girls Lindsay birthday today so we then returned to the hostel to meet everyone else to go on the Huangpu river cruise at 6pm (it’s dark by then so we could see the city illuminated which was good). There wasn’t anywhere to sit down though and my feet were already hurting after the long day I had had with Heather so having to stand up for 90 minutes didn’t help. After the cruise we then all (17 of us) went to pizza hut to celebrate Lindsay's birthday. It was 10.30pm by this point and everyone wanted to go on to do KTV (karaoke) but myself and Heather and a few others were too tired so we returned to the hostel then. There are a few people who got really drunk last night and spent the day in bed today, getting up at 5pm to do the river cruise and then going out drinking at KTV tonight they are probably going to be getting up late tomorrow which to me feels like a complete waste of the week in Shanghai, I want to be getting up every morning giving me enough time to do the sightseeing and getting as much in as I can as I am only here until Friday morning!
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