Expo!

So we finally got to the Expo (after Tanya generously let us steal her tickets for a day - Thank you Tanya!). The place is HUGE, and we spent most of the day (and a bit of the evening) just wondering around the site looking at the pavilions, and considering the fact that most of the queues were 3-4 hours long, we only managed to go inside two pavilions: the first was the Netherlands - which had a very fast moving queue and the Phillpines which had NO queue on the account that the inside held almost zero cultural interest and looked like a cross between a night club and a trinket shop.

Israel had a very funky pavilion

...but it was apparently being held together by duct tape

[Left] There were people sleeping on benches (and on grass) all over the site, and after walking around for 4 hrs it started to look like a great idea.
[Right] Kids with Haibao dolls

Resting in the shade playing cards - please note the 'expo seats' which 90% of people were carrying around.

[Left] British Pavilion [Right] Korean Pavilion with a really cool facade made up of Korean characters

Italian Pavilion