October 1st is National Day of the People's Republic of China. People have told me it has something to do with China's independence. I'm not sure how that fits in with a country that is communistic but they got a 1 week holiday out of it so whatever. Anyway, the holiday started on the 1st and went until the 7th. Jimmy was going out of town with the students on Monday so we figured we should go out and see something fun on Saturday. IT WAS CRAZINESS! And that's just what happens when a city with this many people gets a holiday. We decided to go to People's Square and then walk over to the Bund. But so did everyone else. The Bund is the area along the Huangpu River that we saw on our dinner cruise. It is usually not that crowded and you can easily stroll there without any problems. But this day was so insane that the streets were lined with police and military men. Literally all the way down the street from People's Square to the Bund.
I had Jimmy snag this photo because I just love the noodle bowls that they eat here. It's like our cup-o-noodle things but super sized! They're everywhere. These people have each polished off their giant noodle bowl and are probably thinking about eating some meat on a stick for dessert.
This is the part where it gets scary- the Metro! We see now why some of the metro stations have glass doors- people were getting pushed onto the tracks and dying! This is what we saw as we were coming down the escalator. Solid people. And when we got to the bottom there was no more free space so everyone behind us just kept coming and pushing but there was nowhere to go. I started to get nervous that someone was going to get trampled. 
The sign in the distance with the green square is what we were following to our line. Walking above ground in a crowd like this is one thing but it felt scary being down in the metro station with no space. I was just hoping there were no crazy people with weird plans to set off a bomb or something.
It was kind of stressful but we're glad we went out to experience this. We both agreed that we had never been in such a crowded place. It was good to see what holiday time is like in Shanghai and it's one of those things you only need to do once.