Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Shanghai: A new crew

11-20
I got up at a decent time considering how late I went to bed.  I went down for breakfast in the hostel and slowly everyone from the night before showed up.  Erika came first, and she had a note that the Harry Potter girls left us.  How exciting.  It turns out they got back to the hostel around 2AM and walked in and asked reception they had a note for the "Harry Potter Girls".  The girl at reception was still there and apparentlay had to hold on to a chair as her body contorted wildly from a major epiphany.  She then dug our note out of the trash and gave it.  The Harry Potter girls left an equally spectacular note for us and slid it into Erika's bedroom.
on the back of one of those tourist train cars and took it for a ride for a bit.  Then she jumped on another one, but got in the front seat with the driver--we didn't think he was going to like it, but she didn't get arrested.  After that she set off the security alarm at a drug store because she ran inside to look at a display of candy.  She picked a package up and thrust her arm out, as if to show me, but it crossed the security barrier.  Then she kinda stood there playing with setting off the alarm--the people at the drug store did not appreciate it.
We got out Egg Tarts and they were special.  Then we had some Korea food. I really have missed the Korean food actually--I thought I would be happy with Chinese, but I think the variety is just not as great as I had hoped.  After eating I said goodbye to Erika (but we may meet back up in Hong Kong) and the Harry Potter girls and went to get my train ticket.
I got my train ticket this time and only had to wait in one line.  So I went back to the hostel to book my next hostel and hang out until dinner time.  I got too hungry too quickly so I went back to that awesome noodle place next to the hostel and got some mein.  It was meant to be just a snack.  I met the previous nights fellowship at 7 again and we all headed out, Sans one Harry Potter Girl, Debs, who had a date with a local chinese police officer she met.  We went back to the street noodle place--it was easily all of our favorite food.  We got there and ordered, but then discovered there was a dumpling lady hiding on the next corner, so I opted for just a heap of dumplings instead (I wasn't that hungry anyway).
After dinner we walked towards Raffles--seriously we love Raffles, but some people in our group had not tried the Egg Tarts and they kept hearing about them and well, I wouldn't have had a problem eating another one anyway.  On our way to Raffles we passed this restaraunt where a super tall albino lady, dressed in a wedding dress, was getting her picture.  She was a cyborg, we are pretty sure.  Ryan actually was convinced she was just a mannequinn. Like seriously convinced, so I walked him back to prove she could in fact move on her own.
As we were walking down the road a pack of short asian women descended on us skating with wheels you strap onto your shoes--also selling them.    It was like the battle from return of the jedi, and these women were tie fighters zipping in and out.  Their wheels even glowed as they spun, leaving behind streaks of light.  Ryan bought a pair but he couldn't manage to use them very well.  Juliet fared better, but scared a lot of people while she skated too close to their rears.
Raffles was open this time--yay.  The Egg Tart place was open--yay.  The Egg Tarts were all gone--boo.  We settled for another snack place that had teas and grass jelly.  We caused great pain to the people working there as we asked questions and pointed at things.  But it was their own fault really, as their menu was disorganized and unclear.  The grass jelly was wierd but alright.  Juliet didn't like the tapioca balls.  She spit them out in my tea accidentally, as she thought it was empty.  That was pretty funny actually.
We went back to the hostel to hang out for a bit--drink some beers and wait for Debs to hear about her date.  It was terrible.  They guy took her to a hostel for drinks and tried to convince her that it was too far to come back to her hostel and that they should instead get a room there.  It was the kind of date you come back from and take down a half bottle of rice wine in one swig, which is exactly what she did.
We went for street bbq and encountered a new character--a homeless man who was sleeping on the street who was missing patches of hair and screamed like Chewbacca: Hairless Chewbacca.  We wandered a bit before the street bbq and randomly found a fancy pants club that was just 2 blocks from our hostel.  We were surprised, but after  street bbq Debs tried to get a group of us to go--nobody would go but me, so Deb and I went to this club dressed like slobs.  We didn't even expect that they would let us in, but they did.  It was more of a western style club. There was a guy who looked like Lex Luthor there that tried to tell us how he was rich.  He offered to buy Debs a shot--I got mad not because he didn't buy me one, but because Debs didn't ask for a shot of kryptonite.  We stayed long enough to get a few funny pictures and then left.  I'm still waiting for her to post them on facebook.

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