Shanghai Aquarium

From Sept 2011

This past weekend Lizzy and I went with Nathan on a trip to Shanghai. Nathan had a tech conference there, and rather than do another weekend alone (we'll still have two in September alone), I decided we would go with.

As it turned out, we didn't get to do much sightseeing. The location of the conference was so far out of Shanghai it was 48 kuai (6.5 USD) just to get to the closest Subway station. (This is a ridiculous amount. My average trip in Qingdao by taxi costs about 2.5 USD.) Not to mention the time factor, with good traffic and taking a taxi the whole way, it was still nearly an hour to just get downtown. Not particularly worth it for just a couple hours.

The one thing we did do (tourist wise) was go to the Shanghai Aquarium. Lizbeth has been obsessed with fish lately so we figured it would be a fun activity to do as a family before Nathan had to check into the conference. At more than 20 USD a ticket it was a little bit of a disappointment but still a lot of fun. I only wish they had a little hands on area like the ones in Oregon are apt to have and maybe a dolphin show or something (or at least some dolphins!)

Funny thing was, as besotted as Lizzy is with fish, she was quite terrified of anything larger than her, especially the fake plastic penguins. But she still enjoyed the trip a lot.

Unfortunately the whole thing was very dark and hard to get any clear pictures. Here are a few of the better ones.

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We returned about 5PM, then Nathan had to run off the conference so L and I wandered around a mall. Afterwards we had a late dinner at a Chinese restaurant about 9PM. Lizbeth passed out on the walk home. This picture was taken after the diaper changing she slept through. Other than a two hour nap we had been going since about 5AM that morning to catch our flight. Unfortunately, she woke up shortly after this was taken and had a really hard time going to bed not at home. Poor baby.

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