Day number tres. That's Spanish for, day number three. It just got all multicultural up in this hizzouse.

Today we decided to head over to a restaurant near the Propoganda Museum for lunch. Now very familiar with the area due to our wanderings, we made it with little effort. We also ran across a shop promoting the famous Chinese philosophy of "Three Gun living concept". Aaron and Dan are displaying three guns in the traditional Chinese fashion.

The guidebook recommended their fish soup, which I loved despite my well known dislike of fish. Also I tried the menu for a spin and ordered something where I only half knew what it was. It turned out to be a roll of meat with veg in the middle, with a flaky crust. All of it was absolutely delicious and incredibly cheap.

After lunch we popped on over to the town center to walk through a pedestrian area. They had these dudes rolling around on these skates you attach to your shoes. The 200 RMB price was eventually reduced to 33 RMB. I honestly would have bought them for 25, but he didn't budge on the price. He did budge himself to follow us around for a while in hopes of us changing our mind and buying them. Persistent dude, but not persistent enough to drop his price 8 RMB. If you're reading this Chinese roller skating pedestrian salesman guy, you just lost a sale from a stubborn American.

We also saw an old guy skating around and inbetween bottles while holding fans. I know that's so completely absurd that you need a photo.

So yeah. There's that.

We mosied on over to the Shanghai museum afterwards, who have an ingenious security system. They don't allow liquids inside for I suppose the same reason the airlines do - that you might make some bomb out of them or something. So you're allowed to bring in liquids, but you have to take a drink of it in front of them. Why don't we do this? No liquid limit on planes, and you can bring back as much as liquor as you want - provided you drink it for the TSA.

To be honest I found the museum to be a bit dull. Yeah there was a lot of really old things, as museums do, but it wasn't really cool old stuff. Lots of writings, paintings, and clothing. I mention the clothing only because the ancient Chinese dressed like the guy from Assassin's Creed.

After a rather dull (for me) trip, we got a call from our friend Lucy saying she was almost back in town from her trip to Inner Mongolia. We wanted to meet her for dinner, so it was back to the hotel to drop off our things and rendezvous a few blocks from there. Lucy took us to this wonderful restaurant that had mushroom stew with a billion different kids of mushrooms. As to be expected, I was quite the fan. She also brought back a skin of wine with Genghis Khan on it. Have you ever consumed wine out of a skin? It makes you 10x more badass than any other method. We also were informed to check out the "amazing restrooms", which were to her credit, pretty amazing. It was like peeing in a cave, and washing your hands in a communal stream.


Unfortunately afterwards Yllen and I had to run back home for work the next day. Lucy took Dan, Aaron, and Lindsay to the world famous Bund. I don't exactly know what occurred there, but I've been assured it was "trippy" and "awesometastic".

 See you, Shanghai. (again)