Shanghai PetSmart.
I was wandering around all day and happened upon this pet store. There is really no joke to be made here. Except that it wasn't really a PetSmart, just a pet store. The puppies were cute.

Once again, a photo of Nanjing Donglu. My hotel is the big building on the right, and the Pearl Tower is in the background.

I went on a second hash, this one inside the city. It was out at an office park on the last subway stop.

The hash ended up getting pretty remote. I thought I was running near the city garbage dump but then realized that there was just simply no place for anyone to put their trash besides the side of the road.

At the end of the hash we all drank out of bedpans. The beer was Reeb brand beer. Which, for those of you who aren't very astute, is beer spelled backwards.

The old city is the part that was always Chinese, even during the occupation years. This is a street meat shack just outside a big temple. The tofu wasn't bad at all.

The walls inside the temple were lined with almost a hundred statues of different deities. This was the patron saint of chickens, hence the hat. I wonder if you could actually make a chicken hat?

This guy is the patron saint of "Those Whose Eyes Sprout Arms". This was a much more common affliction a few hundred years ago, but since then the correct folk medicinal remedies have been developed to prevent this sort of thing.

This is the "God of Shanghai". I'm still not sure if that was a translation error or if this really is the god of Shanghai. He had dates next to his name for the years he lived. I guess it's no less strange than putting "0 to 33" next to a crucifix... but it seemed bizarre at the time.

An old city street...