The day started out with a young mom holding her daughter (around age 3) over a wate basket in the train station to pee. WARNING: waste basket = toilet for kids. So walk around with hand sanitizer, you never know what people touched..
We get off the train and start exploring the city, old school to new school, this place is full of character.
We ate at a local Chinese food place off of a small alley. Probably one of the best and cheapest meals we had. It's the best way to go when you eat and shop like the locals.
The Bund is a long, long street full of shopping and sight seeing. From cheap fake brands to over priced goods, they've got everything. The historical buildings on The Bund are remodeled inside and kept in great shape on the facade.
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| Shopping mall on The Bund |
Who's been to the Guggenheim Museum, NY? Looks like a copy but works nothing like it. Pretty cool still.
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| Shopping mall on The Bund |
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| Heart shaped waffles with strawberry jam |
Searching for a good view of New Shanghai (across the Shanghai Huangpu River) and a place to have a drink, we went to CUE bar on top of the Hyatt Hotel.
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| New Shanghai (Day) Ground view |
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| New Shanghai (Night) From the top of Hyatt Hotel |
After a drink and a whole bottle of delicious red wine, much thanks to my great friend Michelle, I was feeling pretty good. We were walking across a bridge back to The Bund when I clumsily, dropped my lens cap into the Huangpu River. Note to self: don't mess with the camera when intoxicated. Thank goodness it wasn't the camera I dropped..
We ended our mission with an expensive meal at a Chinese restaurant in a shopping mall. The service was great and the food was good too. The highlight of that meal was when my friend Candice was having trouble with chopsticks and chased a piece of pineapple around her plate for a few minutes. We watched and laughed as the pretty server lady watched helplessly and scrambled around the restaurant looking for another form of utensil. She was sweet.
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