We landed yesterday at 1pm or so, took 2 hours to get from the airport to our downtown hotel, the Argyle Ryden International Hotel. Chilled for a little bit, ate dinner, then headed off to the official press conference at the 4-Live Club, downtown Shanghail, where all the bands will be playing tonight. Was great to meet a few of the other acts on the bill - Alun Piggun Band and the Jimmy Swift Band; the Roadhammers had just flown in and were on their way to the hotel. We'll meet them today I suspect.

Shanghai is HUGE! 25 million people. Lots of green, lots of buildings, downtown just seems to go on an on and on. Lots of honking, too...honking is a way of life when driving here, apparently. There are lots of folks on motor-scooters and bikes; when the sun comes out again Kim says we'll see even more folks out biking. It's warm and rainy, a little muggy.

I'm slowly getting into China time; body is a little weary and freaked out as my sched has been flipped upside down by 12 hours - it's 9:30 on Monday morning as I write this, but 9:40pm Sunday night in Toronto. It messes with my head a bit, I'll get over it soon I hope.

I've posted some pics from the first day here; nothing too crazy but a tiny taste. We'll be doing more site-seeing, so as internet access and time permits I'll post more!

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=90998503&albumId=950497

Today we're off to the venue for a 2:30 soundcheck, we'll have dinner, then we gals will get to do our offical rockin' out! I'm looking forward to it!!

Take care,
Suzie