Meal. Museum. Meal. Massage. Meal. Massage. (More photos.)

A simple day today, but spanning hours and hours due to the insane traffic. Tomorrow is National Day in China, making the already awful traffic in Shanghai even worse. It made Los Angeles look good. No joke. At one point, vehicles were parked on the freeway for at least 10 minutes, with drivers and passengers standing outside of the cars/taxis/trucks and chatting between lanes. Imagine just hanging out in the middle of the 405. Candace and Barry almost started a game of bridge on the road.

I’m not a big museum person, but the Shanghai Museum was bearable. It extended vertically rather than horizontally (with fancy escalators) and then had multiple exhibits clearly marked on each floor. Jade. Sculpture. Coins. Furniture. Porcelain (I wondered if what we call China they call Here).

So you’re probably curious why the 2 massages today. Well, there’s a very good reason. The first massage was with Candace and Barry following the museum – a one-hour oil body massage. Mostly focusing on the back and legs. But while we were walking around to find a taxi afterwards, my feet were feeling incredibly neglected. And rightfully so – they have been doing most of the work these days. Nevertheless, I was all set to tell them “tough luck” and call it a night when some masterful bargaining made a hotel foot massage worth while: 100 yuan instead of 280 (12 bucks instead of 30 something) and in my room instead of their little lounge. I’m typing this as my big toe is getting cracked.

Now time for a game, inspired by yesterday’s walk through the Shanghai knock-off markets: Bootleg Bewilderment. For some reason, the front covers of bootleg DVDs in China look legitimate and accurate, but the plot summaries on the flip side are just laugh-out-loud ridiculous. Some times referring to a completely different movie, but often times just a scrambled, random, and wordy attempt to translate the real one from Chinese back into English. We’ll start off easy:

“The fertile boon of Pete Wilson and WEN SI – s of the text – in Europe plays a rightness of double friends who divorced, two personal pair of T he weekend time is use wedding of attend various each kind, take birdsmaid of the bubble as the fun ummer is The wedding season, but this film e merge to our is absolutely wedding of another one side.Since new The is already the beauty, so two typical model HUA HUA GONG whom fertile boon of text – Pete Wilson of Europe, WEN SI – play Son the target stare at at birdsmaid of body.The creativity of this film come from 'my grand G reece wedding', take steeping the birdsmaid and very quickly flinging off as to sell the point lately, it may be said is a bad customs pole.”

I couldn’t have explained it better myself.

Name that movie…

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