Saturday, December 17, 2011

Spent the day sightseeing. Saw the place where the first Communist Party meetings took place in the 1920s (Mao Zedong was at those meetings!), toured a museum showing the history of Shanghai, and went up in the Pearl Tower, a TV Tower downtown with distinctive architecture that lights up at night. The cool thing about this tower is that, in addition to getting a 360 degree view of the city, it has a glass floor all the way around that you can stand on. It makes you feel like you're 300 feet in the air standing on nothing. I'm not bad at vertigo, but I'll admit it freaked me out a bit--I didn't stay out there very long. We saw one kid who was desperately trying to break away from Mom so he could go out there. He finally succeeded in breaking away, ran a few feet away, and then tried to force himself out onto the glass. It was cute to watch him try once, twice, three times before he finally succeeded in forcing himself two feet onto the glass . . . and right back to being wrapped around his Mom's leg (who had moved out onto the glass herself by this time). We all need our Moms from time to time!