Out of Shanghai!

As some of you know and some of you don't, my friend Aida, who I met at Meadowmount a few summers ago, is visiting me in Shanghai at the moment. She arrived two days before I flew in, but we hung out on Saturday and all day Sunday. This morning, she was scheduled to fly to Beijing (because no matter how much you want to see your friends, the Great Wall kind of takes precedence), and Joanna and I were supposed to go to class. Little did we know that there were no classes today or tomorrow or for the rest of the week for that matter. (No Chinese class that is, technically my conservatory classes start this week, but I am not taking any lectures, so they will start next week sometime or Friday, who knows) 

Hence, we concocted a plan to go somewhere...anywhere...anywhere but Shanghai. We searched around for cheap flights and found a cheap one  to Xi'an in the north (that's where the terra-cotta soldiers are). But when we tried to book the flights, they said that the price had changed, substantially at that, so we decided to continue looking. Also unfortunate, Aida borrowed Joanna's Lonely Planet China book for Beijing, so we were kind of stuck looking at a map and randomly choosing names. We finally settled on a place called Wuhan which is in the Hubei province, it is in the center of China. It is another large city, but it at least boasts some historical sites and artifacts. It might also be possible to take a train to the Three Gorges, right up the Yantze River from Wuhan. Did I mention, Wuhan is another river city, located on the Yangtze! How cool is that?

We're not really sure what our plan is...we have plane tickets and a hostel and I guess we'll just find out when we get there. That's the plan...or nonplan such as it is! I'm excited. Finally, I'll get to see something other than Shanghai!