**I ran out of free space for photo storage on here just as I began our summer China trip.**
**I'm organizing some work-arounds. Should be back blogging again soon.**
Our summer was to involve a "big trip" around China with Grandma and Grandad, their friend Val, and also Uncle Michael. As this trip took several weeks, it will take several posts to complete - here is the first of those posts!
On the 30th July we flew to Shanghai to meet them - they had arrived the previous day and spent it touring Shanghai. Of course, they were always going to find the beer festival near the Pearl Tower...
As we were about to spend a week at a resort, we were all collected by the resort bus so that we could travel together. They were collected first from their hotel and then we were collected from the airport. We found it funny that trees had drips.
We quickly made ourselves at home in the resort. Luckily for them, we had a seperate apartment (thanks Grandma and Grandad) so they weren't subjected to the early risings.
We took them food shopping, we tried out every restaurant that was open - unfortunately it was often a case of "yes, it is on the menu, no, we don't have it," which was very frustrating.
It was hot, hot, hot - and humid. Not an ideal time to be touring China, but there we were.
I think we checked out everything at the resort - including a pottery class. What a pity the final object broke before we left to our next destination.
Although there was a playground around 300m from our apartment, it was too hot to play outside - even if we were getting there really really early.
The resort was around an hour out of Shanghai - but quite close to one of the "watertowns". Seizing the opportunity to demonstrate our Chinese abilities, we took the local bus there and then toured around.
Stay tuned . . .
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