Day 4

Day 4, June 25

We met the group at breakfast-there's George, our fearless leader, and a few people from Mandarin classes-Joan, Fran, Chuck, Katie and a few more. All together, there were 22 in our tour group. To start off the day, we went to the Shanghai Museum. The museum focused on ancient Chinese history, complete with ancient money, ancient paintings and scrolls and ceramics. We had three hours and were finished in two. Luckily, we were kept occupied by the two gift shops, but we didn't buy anything. We had lunch at a restaurant in a hotel, then rested back at Broadway Mansions until we left for the shopping place and (yet another) garden. We skipped the garden and decided to souvenir shop for people the entire time instead. We got cell phone charms as gifts, and had Tommy, Stephen and my names painted in Chinese characters as well. Dinner was at a Thai place – Suzhou tomorrow!