China Day 24

Our last full day in China had a bit of everything. We wokeup to tainbucketing down so agreed with Mick our guide that we wouldn't attempt any sightseeing until midday as it was forecast to break this morning.

As it turned out the rain just kept on bucketing so we decided to go for lunch,  reasses, and hopefully do the museum. We had booked for the optional Aerobatic Show tonight so had to book in for dinner at 5:30 to make it thereby 7:30. He also suggested we try to get to the silk factory so we settled for that plan.

The rain was still going after lunch so we headed for the silk factory where I realised I did not have my camera - logical place to check was the lunch restaurant so Mick kindly rang them - No, no bag had been left. That triggered a tour of Shanghai as we tried to retrace ourselves in the midst of pouring rain and gridlocked traffic - back to the hotel where CCTV showed I had the camera when we left, back to the garden near the restaurant but no camera. Mick was fantastic and arranged to meet a policeman at the restaurant to check their CCTV and when we got there, guess what? - they produced my camera! Not sure how/why that happened but we were very pleased to have it (and my phone) back.

Off to dinner again beautiful- and then to the show. Can't describe the performances really except to say they were unbelievable - the  gymnastics, balancing, hoop, flying acts just left you speechless. One act was based on the "globe of death" concept of riding a motorcycle inside a huge wire sphere. The difference here was that morecycles kept coming out to add and ended up with 7 going in all directions - a "you've just got to see it to believe it" moment, you left the show not really believing what you had just witnessed.

What a day to finish our China tour! Off to  the Shanghai Tower tomorrow then on the plane at 4:30 to Singapore!