Guo qing jie kuai le!

Happy National Holiday from China! Last weekend was China's National Holiday, and most people had this whole week off. In another uniquely Chinese twist, the technical holiday was last Saturday, Sunday and Monday, and while most people had this week off, they have to work this Saturday and Sunday.

Basically that means that they have 7 days to travel, and then return to work for 7 days straight!


You can see that Shanghai's famous waterside, known as The Bund, was COMPLETELY packed with people. We stayed away after hearing horror stories about the crowds from Tiffany's coworkers. Apparently there wasn't any scheduled entertainment, just thousands of people roaming around Saturday night with air-filled toys!



Air-filled toys? We have no idea why or what for, and it didn't really appear that the locals knew, either. They just like to carry them around for the weekend. I decided to carry around a dangerous looking Hello Kitty air filled hammer with a menacing look on my face the entire night.


We went with a group of our Abroad China friends to go dancing, instead. From the left, Vanessa, Kevin, Ahmet, Brian and Tiffany. We had lots of fun dancing around, hitting each other with the hammer. Ok, well I had lots of fun hitting other people with the hammer. I think Brian finally took it away from me and threw it away...