Sorry that I haven't emailed or done my blog for a while. We had internet at the hotel but it wouldn't let me access my emails or blog. Anyways, soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much stuff has been going on. I am sitting on my mum's bed at my grandma's house writing this and not knowing where to start. So, I got on the plane and watched T.V. Then I watched more T.V. Then I went to sleep. Then I watched more T.V. Then I was almost sick. Then we landed. :-) Shanghai was so hot! I have got heaps of cool pics of stuff we saw. Our hotel was called the Astor House Hotel. We were on the 4th floor. It was really big and old. This is a picture of the ceiling in the lobby and the model boat in the lobby (110 cannons, I counted):

          

There were so many cool things in Shanghai. There was animal topiary, cool buildings, crazy driving and stuff like that. Here are some photos:

Oriental Pearl radio and T.V broadcasting tower 

Dolphin topiary

Egg statue thing

Fire hydrant

Mall sign

Curved escalators

Flower wall

Butterfly topiary

Squashed pig's face

Man with boxes on motor bike with no helmet

When we were taking photos of the flower wall, random Chinese people came up and asked to have photos with us! We tried lychees (a Chinese fruit) for the first time. I went on the Metro for the first time! The Metro is an underground train. Nico (who often says funny stuff) said something really funny before we got to the Metro. We said "We're going on the underground train" Nico said "Where is it?" We said "Underground!" On the way to the airport we got stuck in a non-moving traffic jam for an hour. We flew Virgin Atlantic to London and I have to say I like it more than New Zealand on Air. They had wifi but I didn't want to use it. On the way back from the airport we had some snacks including Hula Hoops! This is a picture of a Hula Hoops packet:

THEY ARE THE BEST THINGS IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When we got to Grandma's we went in the pool with only our undies on!