Well just got back from a long weekend in Shanghai going to the Formula 1 race with Chris. Quite a fun time, especially since one of my colleagues was also getting married that weekend...in Shanghai haha

 

I won't go into details of the bachelor party, but it was a good time and exactly the kind of night I needed. Our plane landed in Pudong airport at 9:30 and by 11 we were in a bar with a bunch of rowdy friends...and then we went to a bar called Windows where we drank a few beers before hitting the town. yada-yada-yada...got home at 5am. That's all anyone needs to know about that night!

 

Anyway, we went to see the Qualifying race on Saturday morning. I only had about 3 hours of sleep and was pretty tired. The weather was pretty cool, and it didn't rain on Saturday. We had great seats with a giant TV in front of our grandstand. We smuggled in a bunch of beer and just spent the day watching cars race by, eating yang rou chuan'r and buying everything we could find. We walked right past the guard and got into the grandstand in front of the starting grid for the qualifying. The word "loud" doesn't describe the sound of 22 Formula 1 cars racing by at 300kmH! We went home later in the afternoon and went to a nice dinner next to the Shanghai tower. Later we ended up in a bar called Max's, where Chris was telling everyone I was one of the F1 drivers haha.

 

The next day we rented a car to take us to the races. We got there around 11am and did more shopping. Chris bought 3 hats, a flag, and umbrella (it was raining) and who knows what else. I just stuck to my Ferrari shirt and watch :-P The race was great. It was an exciting race with Schumacher winning at the end and we really enjoyed it. We came back to the hotel that night pretty tired, but wanted one last meal out in SH...so we went to the Four Season's and ate like kings. Got up this monring, jumped on a plane and came home. A fun weekend was had.