After coming back from The Bund, I walked Kaelyn home and I had a quick client call. Jay and I decided to go for a drink by the SML Center and met a group of people from Singapore. I ordered a Moscow Mule, to remind me of mom… it was fantastic! Copper cup and all! Louise, one of the people we met, is private chef, so later in the night, we all zipped over to...
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I really wish I had my good camera here, the quality from my phone at night isn’t great. It is very beautiful all light up. Kaatje has yet to go so I think we will do it again and get her fancy camera skills a test...
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When we got here, many people warned us to avoid the subway (metro). It was too hard, too busy, not user friendly. I avoided it but we tried to get a taxi to The Bund last night and realized it was going to take us an hour in rush hour. We hopped out and walked to the station. Super simple and cost us only 9RMB (a taxi would likely have cost 25RMB). The give you a...
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A follow nerd, Jay Carter, flew in yesterday. He travels a fair bit and was just back in Canada for a month and had planned to visit China for some hiking. He stopped in Shanghai to visits a few days. He is thinking on heading out Sunday. So tonight we went for dinner at a local restaurant. I’m not sure what it was called that I ordered, I just pointed to the...
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Kaatje just shared her runway walk videos from 2 shows. Here they are to watch
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Since days are counting down now, I’m thinking I will make some quick videos to show what life is like here. Today’s is about bakeries, and there seems to be one on every corner. They are all well kept, smell yummy and have a variety of treats and breads. You don’t buy 3 loafs of bread here at a time, you buy more so for the next day or two. Today...
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We’ve been drinking a lot of water and tea (more tea now than water) and very rarely pop, maybe once a week. We see a lot of people walking around with all sorts of juice and tea drinks. This week I decided to take the plunge and just order at a popular place not know what I would get. Thankfully, when I got to the cashier they had a english menu I could point...
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Yep, in 1 month from now we will be waiting in the airport to board our plan back. We leave at 7:30pm on Nov 22 and arrive in Toronto 8pm Nov 22 😉 Today the girls had afternoon jobs (with Kaelyn’s ending late late again). So I took them out to lunch at a place Kaatje recommended in the SML Center she went this week to with a friend. They have little sheets...
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Kaatje had an early show which meant I got to spend the afternoon/evening with her. I had a surprise waiting for her – I found the ‘pumpkin pies’ at City Shop. 2 small pastries for 16RMB. I think she misses Papa’s pies 😉 I told her no peeking to start. During the day , we went for a short walk to a market down the road. Pretty much all...
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Today Kaatje had a late start so we headed to the mall. We are desperately looking for anything pumpkin like pie or tarts. The girls really miss that from home. No such luck, but we did stop at H&M and picked up some clothes. Looking good dear!
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