Day 11 morning: Old Shanghai

Our last morning. Went to the old area of Shanghai. Last shopping opportunity. Han led me and Marian through alleyways and many twists and turns to this place (middle photo) where we bought 27 knockoff Olympic t-shirts for all the coho kids and Emily's track team. I think the guy was in shock because we were buying so many t-shirts -- he had to send someone off to get more! M & I bargained hard and got a reasonable deal (16,000 yuan down to 600 for all of them - about $3 each) although in hindsight we probably could have done better - this bargaining thing is just not in our American psyche. After shopping we went to a tea house and had a demo of a tea ceremony which is a very involved ritual with many many steps including washing the leaves and warming the little cups between our hands as you can see in the photo below.