Gardens and Running Catching

Today we went to the city of Suzhou about 45km after from Shanghai. Suzhou is famous for their gardens and it’s the sister city to Portland. The first garden we went to as a group then back to the bus and to find another garden. But the bus drive didn’t know where he was going. We end up stop at a historic street and walk down it. The street run along a canal and was dot with old buildings. We got about 2 hours for lunch and to meet at another garden just up the road. Madelyn, Sam and I found nice place on the canal. It was a western place and we had pizza which was good. After finishing lunch we walk to the garden. This garden had a zoo in it with a panda. It was neat to see the animals. At the zoo we decided to break up the group, so people decided to go back to shanghai on the bus and the other decided to stay later and take the train back. And from the 8 who stayed 3 with off on they own. So the 5 of us (Christian, Matt, Edwin, Braeden), went to a Buddha Temple “Beisi tower”. We climbed all the way to the top. From there we went up with the group of 3 at the train. They got tickets for the 7:45 train but we could only get trains for the 8:45 in first class, ”damn” so the 5 of us decided to go out to eat. Went ate at nice place next to the first place we were going to eat at. The first place was to spendy. After eating we took a taxi to the train station but I took longer than we thought it would and Edwin had to change another taxi. At the train station we looked for Edwin. Braeden just happen to see Edwin across the square so we started running after him. We caught up to him and run into the train station. We got into line but something we funny because the line so not moving and we need to board the train in minutes. We were in the wrong line, the right line was next to us so we run down the line and hand the train people the tickets. Then run down the train platform to get to your car and we just made it. The train ride was nice and we got to shanghai in 45 minutes. After leaving the train station we walk to the subway and got on subway line 1. From the subway it was a sort walk to the hotel.