We booked tickets and hotel rooms for three trips: Hangzhou water town, Huangshan Mountain featured in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Guilin where we'll travel down the rivers and hike through the rice paddies to explore minority villages. With future adventures planned, we are spending this weekend exploring Shanghai. Today we bought a live fish from an outdoor market. The scaled and gutted fish played it cool for a few minutes until we were out of the market and then tried to flop its way to freedom. Liz dropped the bag on the sidewalk, shrieked, and started looking around for Alan Funt and the candid camera crew.
Here is the fish. 
If you are a PETA sympathizer you may wish to skip this video.
...and here is what became of him. Fried in oil and coated with a thick green onion and peanut sauce, with some bok choy and mushrooms on the side.
Here are a bunch of snapshots from around town.
From ELANA HARR
Why was everyone sleeping on the wall?
I love the lady making fish. But I didn't like that there was no sound. The rainbow river was so cute. And I loved the ball castle.
I got stung by a bee at Hank's house.It very hurted. I needed 3 bandaids and it still hurts. I was brave.I am doing a little better now but it still hurts.
I hope that you are going to come visit us at home after China.
Elana said...
July 12, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Elana Harr wrote:
> Why was everyone sleeping on the wall? I love the
> lady making fish. But I didn't like that there was
> no sound. The rainbow river was so cute. And I
> loved the ball castle.
Ball castle! What a great name. I think people might get a little confused though. There are a LOT of buildings here shaped like spheres.
Why were the guys on the wall? We're not sure but we think they were just taking a nap during their lunch break. There are a bunch of people here fixing roads and building tall office buildings and they get VERY tired.
Seth and Liz said...
July 13, 2009 at 5:00 AM