Since I haven't updated in FOREVER, I'm going to do the last 4 cities in one post.
Shanghai- After an incident with immigration (My grandmother didn't have the right stamp on her passport copy, so we missed our tour. Great.) we headed into Shanghai. We decided to just walk around. My grandpa had an "issue" with some guy that was trying to shine his shoes. While I don't blame him for getting angry, my grandparents are in their own little cultural "bubble" that is so tight that they can't deal with any single thing that isn't their own culture, so after about 30 minutes in Shanghai, we were back for an hour long bus ride to the port. The good thing was that apparently there is some expo going on in Shanghai currently, so the port we were docked in was brand new, and there was some sort of welcome crowd for us. Yay!
Quingdao- This was the port where about 2000 passengers got off the boat, and 1000 got on. Apparently the 32 day cruise I am on is basically two different 16 day cruises put together. So this place we were in (Quingdao) is basically the port for Beijing. There is NOTHING there. Literally. The only thing we found was a friendship store, and they had next to nothing. The only cool thing was at the building next door, there was the cutesy monkey in a cage. I wanted to take it home, but my grandparents wouldn't let me. Oh well.
Dalian- the next day, we were in Dalian, China. You haven't heard of it? Well, you aren't the only one. It was a port town that didn't have much to it. We were dropped off at a friendship store, but I soon figured out that the stores only friends were those with fat wallets. Think along the lines of 500-700 dollars for a windbreaker jacket. Uh huh. So we wandered around after that. We have figured out that China has a fondness for busy streets with no crosswalk lights. Add that to my grandfathers tendency to make scary bodies when he somehow sees a car that is 2659274933934936393 feet away, and I have heart attacks every time.
Quingdao- another place I am sure you haven't heard of. The only thing they are really known for is that they hosted the Sailing competition for the 2008 Olympics. Pretty cool. There is really nothing there though, so after wandering around, we finally went back to the ship.
I will probably update with P/B- usan (will explain in post) tomorrow.... Hopefully.
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