Chinese New Year vacation

My wife and I have been teaching English in China for the past few months and her parents decided to come visit us over Chinese New Year. They wanted to do all the touristy stuff like the Great Wall and the markets but I convinced them to add in a couple less touristy things too. We needed up spending a few days in Beijing and a few days in Shanghai and only 1 day at home where my wife and I live which is a little town right outside of Beijing.

We went to old town in shanghai for a few hours and it was packed full of people. I don’t think I saw the ground for about 2 hours.

It’s the year of the dog now so there were dog statues and signs everywhere.

They had put up these fences to make sure everything moved smoothly.

We went to Disney and it was at max capacity. It was insane how many people they had in such a small place.

This was late at night during the fireworks. We wanted to get out of there before the rush for the taxis happened. There were so few non-Chinese at the park that we started keeping track of every non-Asian face that we saw throughout the day. The park capacity was around 63,000 people and we counted exactly 47 non-Asian people.

We heard that the Disney castle in shanghai is the biggest Disney castle in the world!

We love going to old temples and learning about the history and the culture that exists even in the middle of a huge city like Shanghai.