My wife Antipatika had already posted an entry about our trip to the Shanghai Oceanarium. However, I already had some photos cropped and watermarked so I’m still doing my own post. Having said that, I won’t go into further details of the trip, I’d rather rant about the crowd instead.
Just one of the clearer photos I got from hundreds of blurred shots. Taken at the far end of the 2nd tunnel.
Skyline Penguins Fly
May 1, Labor Day, is a National Holiday in China, however it fall on a Thursday. The following Friday was not declared a holiday so the people should still go back to work the next day. If it turned out to be a Friday, it would explain the sudden apparition of an enormous crowd, but it’s not. I could only hope that the Chinese denizens really had a thing about commemorating national holidays because if not, why not just storm the parks and tourist spots on a regular weekend. Weekends are always consists of two days – Saturdays and Sundays – and the whole world knows that. Though there are cases that someone had to render overtime work and most often that not, it had to be done on Saturdays. That only means they still have all Sundays to do the site-seeing on countless parks and other attractions. What’s the need to do that on May 1, of 2008?
