Day 29 – The Bund and Yu Gardens

By Dad on Oct 1, 2017 in Shanghai, China (2017) | 2 comments

Being the holiday, Kaelyn didn’t have to work and it was sunny so it seemed like the perfect day to visit The Bund and Yu Gardens. Plus Kaelyn wanted to look for some new shorts 😉 Videos at the bottom. We first zipped to H&M and found some shorts, and headed down via taxi to The Bund. We weren’t sure what to expect, and things were pretty normal in...

Day 29 – Kaatje and Nanjing

By Dad on Oct 1, 2017 in Shanghai, China (2017) | 0 comments

Kaatje had a busy weekend, working Saturday morning and a planned job out of town today. However, things did not go as planned. Because it is a holiday this week (Oct 1-7) everything is slow and busy. People from the cities go back home. So there was no train spaces left to go to Nanjing (this is the place we traveled via train the first week together) so she had to...

Day 28 – Food update

By Dad on Sep 30, 2017 in Shanghai, China (2017) | 0 comments

So we are very much more in tune with food now. We know where to go, what we like. We are eating more substantial meals too (and likely too many ‘eating out places’ than we should). But there are some pretty good deals to be had if you go to popular (ie. busy) locations. Here are 2 right across from my apartment: This is 9.5RMB ($1.75CAD) – 4 pork...

Day 53 of 82 (35% of the trip is done).. more than 1/3rd!!!! The girls are working hard, and getting lots of jobs. But we miss home. We missed Hailey’s birthday which has never happened. So we are counting down the days until we get to see everyone.  

Day 27 – Shanghai taxi scam

By Dad on Sep 29, 2017 in Shanghai, China (2017) | 0 comments

So after leaving the Shanghai Tower, like the airport, there was a line of taxis ready to take people back. But afterwards when we got back, we realized we had been scammed financially. Our trip there cost 45RMB ($8.45CAD) but the way back was 150RMB ($28CAD). How did this happen, well looking back a few things were obvious and we won’t make that mistake...

Day 27 – Visit to Shanghai Tower

By Dad on Sep 29, 2017 in Shanghai, China (2017) | 2 comments

Both girls finished early and so we decided to head across the Huangpu River to the second tallest building in the world, the Shanghai Tower We arrived directly across the street in a much different, less busy world than where we live. It feels more like Toronto here, wider roads, less people, tall buildings. And cleaner. There was many non-locals obviously here on...