6/23 - Leaving from Chengdu

6/23

Woke up and went to get wontons for breakfast with my cousins because I had been craving them.

One order has 8, so I guess I got 24...

My 5-year craving was fully satiated.

Me & my mom's high school bff.

Had lunch at my dad's side as my farewell. Noms.

Then after lunch, we looked through a bunch of their photo albums and reminisced. For those who don't know, my grandparents on my dad's side were in the US from when I was born to when I was 4 years old. So, we have a lot of pics sightseeing, holidays, birthdays, random, etc.

:P I have no front teeth.

bIRTHDAY bOY!

Me & my childhood BFF Sophie.

Me, Nancy, and our cousins on our dad's side. Can you guess which one is me?!?!? :D

Also, check out mah weird hair color... so brown.

CITY GIRL 'TIL THE DAY I DIE. LOL!

lyke OMG letz go shoppingggggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!

My grandparents and my uncles sent me off at the airport.

Then, because there were huge storms in SHANGHAI, they decided to delay our flight AFTER we had already gotten on the plane. So, they served dinner first, before we took off. We waited on the plane for about 3 hours. I did not have enough leg space. It was so uncomfortable. And some guy next to me struck up a conversation with me. Except he only spoke Chinese, so I only understood about 5 of the words he said over the course of 3 hours.

I was supposed to get to Shanghai around 8:30, but ended up getting in at around 11:30. Sadly, other cities are not as great as NYC, and their subways stop [...wtf?!?!] And the Shanghai subway doesn't even run until reasonably late. The last subway that leaves from Pudong Airport leaves at 9pm. The schedule doesn't change for the weekends either. Truly idiotic.

This was the line for the taxi..................... Waited in line for about 30 minutes. One of the things I hate about China is that there are too many people anywhere I go. And unless there is a police officer or some kind of authority around, people do not understand the concept of lines and just like to squeeze to the front and shove their way through and pack into places (such as the subway). And when I have to wait in line, I have to wait 5ever because there are so many people.

On da one n' only Nanpu Daqiao

Made it back home around 1:30, and got in bed around 2. Had to wake up at 6:45 the next day for work. Hooray...