Shanghai is Huge (Day 3570 - 9/3/19)

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Stephen, Mallory, Mark, and Rhonda are having an Asian-style meal on the airplane. They are flying to Pudong which is a district of Shanghai. They arrived at the Ramada Pudong Airport Shanghai where they met up with their tour group. The tour group has a driver, so the driver drove them on a bus to a hotel that was an hour away from the airport. Stephen was surprised that it took 1 hour to get to the Courtyard by Marriott Shanghai-Pudong Hotel despite there being no traffic. He comments that Shanghai is huge. It was dark outside, so Stephen wasn't able to film a lot.

At the hotel, Stephen talks about how the last 2 vlogs were weird and short. He asks the viewers for their understanding because he has a limited amount of SD cards, so he wants to save them to film more interesting things. Stephen says that he only played Dragon Quest 1 yesterday, so nothing interesting happened anyway. If he runs out of SD cards, then he will just go buy another one. But, the amount of SD cards he has can hold up to 12-14 hours of footage so he will fine as long as he records only what is necessary. This will also make the editing process easier since he doesn't have to go through a lot of footage. He mentions that he had to split the vlog because they crossed the international date line.

Stephen says that the hotel they are staying at is the Courtyard by Marriott Shanghai-Pudong. He mentions that they've stayed in a lot of Marriott hotels in the states. It is a very western-style hotel. Stephen then realizes that it might be unfair to describe the room as western-style since hotel rooms in China might look like this as well. They will be staying in this hotel until Friday. Stephen talks about how they were worried if they were going to have wifi and whether the wifi would be fast enough since a VPN was in the mix. But, they were able to do Breakfast Stream today. Also, they will be doing the Thursday Breakfast Stream in this hotel as well since they're here until Friday. Then, Mal asks Stephen to turn down the AC because she's cold. Stephen says that they had to do the conversions from Fahrenheit to Celsius to set the room temperature at the temperature they usually sleep at which is 20 degrees Celsius. Stephen ends the vlog since he wants to save space on the SD card.