For New Year's Eve we went to a bar called New Heights on the top floor of a building right on the Bund (the fancy downtown area). The party was so much fun it was open bar with an incredible view of the Huang Pu River in Shanghai. Here is the view from the bar.

You can never have too many or too big a Chinese Flag.

New Years in Shanghai!
We are standing in front of a Happy New Year 2009 ice sculpture...fancy stuff!

I wish I could tell you the night ended with a kiss...

Before we went out we were warned that it was virtually impossible to get a taxi on New Year's Eve. So we went outside and saw an available one, well so did about 15 other people. There was a mad sprint for the cab, needless to say, being a more athletic culture, we won. We were already in the cab, about to shut the door and this Chinese couple dove on top of us and tried to pull us out of the cab to steal it. As we were being screamed at in Chinese, out of nowhere this girl jumped on top of Jeremy and he threw her off. Then her boyfriend came after him and Ben convinced Jeremy not to go after him for fear of Chinese prison. One of the better decision made that night. What I couldn't believe is that the taxi driver didn't just drive away when we were in the cab. He sat and watched to see who would get it at the end of the fight!

Happy 2009!