We arrived by high speed train on Monday afternoon and were met by Pan and our driver who delivered us downtown and the Radison Blu Hotel. This is a very modern city with a European feel, even more than Hangzhou. There are 3,000 buildings over 30 stories tall in the city of 23 million and they are building more.
Tuesday included a visit to the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall. Very nicely done overview of Shanghai including scale models of the whole city. Next stop Yuyuan Garden which was very pretty and filled with hungry koi! Then a tea house where we tried many different teas. After dropping Colby off at the hotel (not feeling my best) the crew went to the Shanghai World Financial Center and then lunch. In the afternoon Colby rejoined the bunch and we went to visit friends of the Dunivans, Cindy and Rusty McLagan in their lovely apartment and then to dinner. While at the McLagan's Larry got a call from our tour guide who told us that the government had ordered all tours to be cancelled on Wednesday because of the typhoon.
Cindy took us for a walk through the antique market where I bought a cool fabric bag made of handwoven fabric. We the went to the fish and bird and cricket and dog and cat market. All sorts of animals are for sale here - as pets. We did a little car shopping but did not make a decision, And we strolled through the French Concession. Then back to the McLagen's for wine and the. off to dinner where we had some of the best Chinese food we have had. We also drank Chinese wine which was pretty good!
Sharon and I taxied back to the hotel and crashed. Claire and Audra headed to the Bund to party with Grace and here boyfriend Tom 'till the wee hours of the morning!
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| Crickets |
Cindy bought me one of those bags. It's a fav.
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