19 January 2008: Back to Shanghai

Today it was raining in Hangzhou. We didn't mind, as we had planned to catch the train back to Shanghai today. After packing everything into our bags, we headed down to the train station. There were heaps of people lingering outside the train station. They all had packed bags like they were about to head somewhere, but none seemed too interested in entering the train station. I found this very curious. I'm not sure weather they planned to enter the station later, or if they hadn't bought tickets, or what.
Chris and I had no problems getting to the train station and finding where to board our train. We had to wait in a little waiting room, which was very similar to the boarding lounge at the airport. Chris and I were almost the only westerns on the train.
Once we boarded the train, the trip was fairly quick. It took two hours to travel from Hungzhou to Shanghai with one stop in Jiaxing.
When we reached Shanghai, we took the subway to our hotel, which was located right near the main Shanghai railway station. It was rainy and wet and cold outside, so Chris and I checked into the hotel and decided we should stay in tonight and watch some DVDs. We went to try and find some drinks and snacks, but didn't have much luck finding the drinks that Chris was looking for. We ventured out again later that night for some dinner.
We watched some of the copy DVDs we had bought when we were with Ryan. The quality seemed pretty good, so with any luck, the others will be ok too.