Wakeup Call [Shanghai]

One of the less popular features of this trip has been the morning wake-up call. Gloria announces the night before when or mandatory wakeup call will come. The latest — and this only happened once — has been 8:00.

I'm a morning person, so I'm usually up anyway, but arm-wrestling the guys out of bed has been entertaining. Aaron has a sticker on his door that says "I like to wake up at the crack of noon" — and last night he and Tom came in a bt after 3. And he's the easy one.

This morning, the wakeup call came at 5:00.

This close to the equinox, the sun's already up. So how do you tell it's 5 am in Shanghai?

No cars.