rain

rain at jing-an

Sunday afternoon and the rain fell heavily on Jing-An.
Compared to the genteel rain of England, the storms in Shanghai are so intense that it actually makes me go all giddy and childlike to walk around in them- splashing my flip-flops through the flooded streets and resisting the urge to just take my shirt off and run around like a Calcutta street kid during a monsoon.

To avoid the weather, we took a canoe to the Science & Technology Museum in Pudong.

in a boat

Avoiding the rain

I’ve been here before, but it’s a big enough place to warrant a second visit (and we still haven’t been to the third floor). It’s all a bit manic at times with kids mashing the interactive buttons with their sticky palms, and running past all of the boring science bits, to get to the ice-creams.

Also no Alligators- surely every good museum needs an Alligator. What’s up with that?

Still though, it’s good fun and if you concentrate very hard you might learn something.

concentration

concentrating very hard

The best exhibit was a “magic room” where the walls and ceiling are designed so that what looks like a vertical, isn’t. The whole room tilts up and down (at least, it did after I had a couple of liveners in the bar) and you just can’t steady yourself.

It was more confusing than a South African athlete’s gender (*rimshot*).

plasma ball

Plasma boy