Up In The Sky

3 July 

Day one in Shanghai...

I woke up in the morning at 8.30 am. We went up to breakfast which Mum claimed was on the 5th floor, but when we could not find it, we asked a staff member. It was on the 8th floor. So we went to the elevator, it only went to floor 7 so we went to floor 7 and found another elevator aka the smell-e-vator, and we finally got to breakfast.

When we got to breakfast we looked in the food tubs. There were hash browns, hard boiled eggs, rice and pickled vegetables, fruit, beans, sausages, cereal and no milk. We had to ask for milk, which was peculiar, to have to ask. On the table with the cereal they had drinking yoghurt. We thought it was normal yoghurt at first, before we tried to eat it with spoons. That did not go well.

I ate two hash browns, one boiled egg, two glasses of mango-orange juice and toast. Jack ate seven hash browns, toast (which he burnt), juice and chocolate cereal. Mum and Dad had the Chinese breakfast and had rice and vegetables. They thought it was good, but I thought it was disgusting.

After breakfast our friend Shayne (who lives in Shanghai, but is from Ballarat), took us on a big walking tour around the French Concession area in Shanghai. We ended up at the riverside and we got a ferry to the other side of the river and went up to the top of the Shanghai Tower. Shanghai Tower is 632 metres tall. It is the second tallest building in the world. When we got to the top we saw all of Shanghai. The population of Shanghai is 24 million people. The population of Australia is about 23 million. We could fit all of the people in Australia in Shanghai and still not have as many people as Shanghai.

I got a crystal model of Shanghai Tower.