Greetings from Shanghai
Because I have only a few minutes, below is what I wrote my dad also. I'm thinking of you all and ready to return home.

Things here are interesting to say the least. In short, everything is a gigantic pain in the ass. Places are crowded and people shove like crazy. I can't say that I'll ever be in a rush to come back here. Highlights: all of us on the world's most crowded bus, as more and more people shove their way in to the bus and I start talking in English, offering to practice English with anyone who wants to. I also talk loudly about Bob Barker. Everywhere you go these guys come out of nowhere to say, Hello, Watch. As if you want to buy 1000 watches. Andrea's started combatting them by saying HELLO the way Squiggy used to on Laverne and Shirley. Yesterday Amy and I started dancing inside a store because they were playing great dance music. The girls started dancing with us and had a great time with the silly americans. People stare at us wherever we go. I hate the toilet situation, there's something wrong with pretty much every single one we've found. I don't squat, refuse to squat, so there's an extra constraint on our adventures. McDonalds and KFC are EVERYWHERE and the Starbuck's we had yesterday was without a doubt the best ever! We see very few white people and find ourselves staring at them too.