While we prayed for more rain to drive tourists away from the Expo we went to the Shanghai Bund and walked along a pedestrian street to get there and then took some pictures of the modern buildings across the rivers
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Charlotte in front of the Peace hotel
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Another shot of the hotel
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Shanghai across the river
Expo: Day 2
While it wasn't really raining, it was threatening rain so we headed back to the Expo, but while there was not a line for tickets, the threat of rain is not strong enough to drive away the tourists and it was much more packed today than it was the night a couple days ago. Luckily we had been there before so we had a game plan of how to deal. Wait in 1 line and see a pavilion then find that countries bar and drink away the pain we had just dealt with before finding the next pavilion. This seemed to work pretty well, except too many countries didn't bring beer with them so we ended up only getting to taste about 3 different beers, but we got food at the others which was also very good. We still could not get into the big countries like France, Italy, Great Britain, etc...but we did get into New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Finland, Lithuania, African nations and Ireland. The highlights of the day were probably Ireland and Algeria of all places. The biggest disappointment for me was Norway, which I just didn't understand and Croatia which had almost nothing in it except some ties. Lithuania had a good bar where we talked to the bar tender and another volunteer from one of the Caribbean islands. We asked him why the Caribbean islands show was so small and empty, to which he responded that they were the Caribbean islands did we really expect them to put a lot of effort into it?
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Inside New Zealand
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At the Belgian Bar, we couldnt get in because of a huge line waiting for chocolate (Charlotte was very disappointed)
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Spain
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Germany, couldn't get in here either and they were charging more for their beers in China than they did at Oktoberfest in Munich
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Finish meatballs and dessert
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Great Britain's strange building that was full of a display of seeds.
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Closeup of Great Britain, each spike was a tube with a different type of seed in it.
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You aren't Canadian
Only about half of the countries seemed to have volunteers from their own country at the Expo, the others seemed to be only a couple if any natives and the rest Chinese people pretending to be from that country (like wearing a hat from the outback to look Australian). Knowing this and also knowing that if you are a citizen you get in ahead of the line, we headed to the Canadian pavilion and saw a bunch of Chinese people working the door. I decided I could pull off being Canadian, I mean how hard could that be, eh? I went up and the just seeing me one girl asked in broken English if I was Canadian which I responded I was. This was going to be easier then I thought. When we got up though she asked for our passport. We told her we didnt have it, because we didnt know we could get in fast with it. She was still going to let us in, until another Chinese volunteer came up who spoke English. He asked where we were from, I responded Vancouver (trying to avoid having to speak French which I don't know a single word of). He then asked what part, because he also was from Vancouver, I pulled out that I was actually was from Richmond, a town outside Vancouver. He then asked where and I gave vague answers and then he asked who the mayor of Vancouver was. Who knew the Canadians would be so strict about seeing a building about their country. We told them that we live in the states now, but at this time we were getting tired of this and just headed off to another country instead.
Another rainy night
After we left the expo it started raining hard again. We went to a cafe that we knew had the internet, we were ready to order, but no one ever came up to us so we just spent an hour using their internet and left. We then swung by a nightclub that Charlotte wanted to see from the 1900's on the way home.
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Charlotte out in the rain
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