Morning
I went to work, and spent the morning traveling from SW corner of Shanghai to the North central part of the city to see a supplier. The supplier is starting to make parts for our trucks in the states, and we wanted to see their facilities and if they were set up properly. Let’s just say that Chinese suppliers are not set up quite the same way as American suppliers, and leave it at that. BTW, the sixth picture is too far away, but I’m trying to show that they have a stop light that only lets you turn right from the far left lane, and yes, the right lane can also turn right. Weird. They also have a feature with their traffic lights that I think we should adopt—they count down how many seconds until the light changes from either red or green. Very cool!
Tracy got a personalized tour from the local tour guide. She went to a market with many wares—mostly knockoffs—and picked up an item or two. Then she went to the China History Museum, which has artifacts dating back to 10,000 BC. She really enjoyed that, as you might have guessed!
Afternoon
After checking email for an hour or so (first time all week!), we spent the afternoon in meetings. We then went to dinner at an Italian place, since the Thai place was already booked.
Tracy, on the other hand, spent part of the afternoon getting another spa treatment, where the massage was really excellent, including massaging her hair somehow (I don’t get it, but she says it was great). She joined us for dinner, and after fighting rush hour traffic for over an hour, we got to our destination which was normally a fifteen minute drive. Our restaurant was in the old French district of town, one of the few places they haven’t torn down the old buildings to make way for the new, and it’s a wonderful part of town. The dinner was again excellent, and we walked for a few minutes afterward to take in the scenery and the Christmas decorations. The photo is of some dancers in the square entertaining a lot of the onlookers. The Communists know how to party!
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