Visitors Day 1

It's official, we've had our first visitors and thus Meg and I are officially temporary Shanghai residents. Jeff, Jen and Mike dropped in for a whirlwind Shanghain experience last week. For those of you requiring an introduction to these three. Jeff is a friend from university. Jen's his sister and his currently teaching english in the nether regions of China, and Mike's an old highschool buddy of Jeff's.

They arrived on the morning of August 16. I went and met them a the train station, gave them a map and sent them out on the town. Working sucks at the best of the time, but it's especially terrible if you're working in a city far from home and you know that you have friends in town temporarily who are out wandering about. So the first day dragged by, and then Meg and I headed over Puxi 蒲西 (little language aside...Pu 蒲 is river and xi 西 is west. So Puxi is west of the river, the Huangpu that bisects Shanghai.) side for some gorging on chinese food.
Now Shanghai is an expensive by Chinese standards, but even so a full multicourse meal for 5 combined with all the cold beers they had in the fridge amounted to a monstrous 120RMB, or about 16 bucks. The night carried on from there to some patio cocktails, and finished off with a bottle of Tibetan red back at our apartment that Jeff and Jen had carted back from nearby the Tibetan border. I remember deliciousness.

On their adventures that day they'd come across the ubiquitous DVD vendors, and been sold a line on the quality of the DVDs. This lead to some irate hysterical yelling from Mike, and prompted Jeff to give the poor fellow a call and chew him out for selling bad DVDs. Never mind that it was 2AM by then. Serves the fellow right I suppose for giving out a business card when selling poor quality discs.
Sleeping quarters were a little tight. Scroll down and you'll see the size of our apartment. But by that point of the evening I don't suppose they would have cared where the slept. Work was a little tough come morning.