Took our time in the morning, then headed to Yu Yuan Garden in Shanghai. I was looking forward to some sight seeing, and the girls were sad that they had to take a break from shopping. As it turned out, Yu Garden offered a little bit of both. Lots of small shops lined streets of more traditional looking Chinese buildings.
We found a nice dollar store-esque place, and the girls stocked up on various knick knacks. Even I broke down and spent 18 yuan (about $2.50 Canadian). Next to the dollar store was a market with very narrow aisles and lots of tiny shops. We puzzled over how some of the shopkeepers even managed to get into their shop, because they were surrounded by products. The market did not seem tourist oriented, which was a nice departure. I bought a small pocket mirror because sometimes I forget how beautiful I am, and it’s nice to have a reminder (and mosty because Victoria and Gabriella have been chipping away at my self esteem over the past week).
We headed to Nanjing Rd. – which is a pedestrian street in Shanghai. The dialect on this street is quite different – instead of hello they say “bags, Gucci, Prada, Sunglasses, Watches, dvd dvd dvd”. I’m not exactly sure what that translates to in English, but I’m intent on finding out. Had lunch there, at a Chinese place called “Subway”. I had the sandwich of the day, which was a very exotic Spicy Italian 6″.
After dinner we walked down to the Bund, and took some pictures of Pudong across the river. Quite different than the view we had from the Pudong side on Wednesday. We walked around there for a while then headed back to the car and picked up Fransis at work.
Headed home from there, had dinner, and did some packing to prepare for our trip to Beijing in the morning.