Monday, September 14, 2009

We were papped in Shanghai







There is a first time for everything and today was the first time that I had fried rice for breakfast. We took our bus to Jo Yian gardens which didn’t have any plants in it which was bizarre. We went through the old town, walked in the famous tea house and then walked out again when we found out that we didn’t have enough time. Coy carp were everywhere, called lucky lucky fish because it’s one of the few things that Chinese people don’t eat. We went shopping, and then were handed a panda card by Lillian to count us back on the coach. Jo of course had the rude one of the pack!

We then went on a boat trip to see the Bund and Pearl Tower that has 22 honeymoon suites!. For lunch we went to a Mongolian restaurant whereby you pick whatever meat, veg and sauce, and it’s cooked for you. Attached to the restaurant was a cashmere factory but window shopping was enough for my salary. We went to Nanjing road to hop, where we saw a parade of people wearing chicken costumes, followed by people doing kung Fu on a stage which was amazing. However, we had the paparatzzi around us, constantly taking pictures of us. Brigitte waved and smiled to the camera. They were even trying to be discreet about taking them, but it was obvious! The number of walls that we must now appear on!

After a little rest and watching the amazing view outside of our window of the worlds tallest building, we went to an acrobatic show which had lots of ooooo, eeeee, ahhhhh. How do people learn to balance on shares and a huge plant pot on their heads? As we left, my oh such adorable family left me on the other side of 4 lanes of traffic.

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