Shanghai 3 Days!

Shanghai trip for 3 days 2 nights is definitely refreshing for overall. Shanghai is just so damn freaking big and lotsa people and people and people everywhere. Go to any shopping or tourist attraction area and it is so damn jammed packed with people people and people.

We left on Monday morning from ZJG taking a bus around 10am and 2 hours reaching the North Bus Station in Shanghai. Fortunately for me, that i remember the way around there after a few trips. We proceed to take Metro underground to our hotel in XuJiaHui again, HomeInn Hotel, our favourite nice little cozy yellow colored hotel. We then checked in proceed to go to Metro City lower ground floor, food court for some delicious lunch. We walk around there again that comprises a few malls and by the time we are done and back at the hotel, it is night already getting ready for some rest after a whole day walking. I bought a new super duper cheap mobile, we get Romeo few toys from Grand Gateway, a baby notebook since he like to pester us when we use our notebook, a pushing learning walking cart, a remote control baby car :) So far the 1st day is good.

2nd day comes and we have even more jammed packed action day! Lunch at a local mixed dished restaurant nearby and my darling have her long awaited haircut that cost RMB35 inclusive of head massage, hair washing and professional stylist modelling the hair and it takes around 1 and half hour to get it done. We then take Metro to Nanjing East Road for a walk at Shanghai BuXinJie, "walking street". Seas of people. Walk to the Bund next to HuangPu River and found out that it is simply too packed to walk across the street to take some scenic pictures by the river looking across to Pudong tower. So we decided to walk back and take Metro across the river and up the tower :) Pay RMB 170 for 2 adults to goes up the tower and get some pictures and enjoy the Shanghai view. Seas of people again.

By the time we are done with the tower it is already dark around 6.30pm. We then proceed to take Metro to this underground mall in Pudong that is famous for cheap goods. Heard from local Chinese that all the bargains and psar malam stuff can be found here. Reach there and have a japanese dinner accompanied by a slight walk in the mall and surprisingly, they normally closed at 8pm. Hence, a short walk buying a pair of Puma sneakers for each of us and a nice pair of matching watch for both of us :) By then, we are dead tired with our legs and it simply gave way for any other walking :)

3rd day, which is today, we met up with out friend and we have our China's Pizza Hut at XuJiaHui. Then we took the Metro to HuaiHai Lu adjascent to Nanjing Dong Lu and this street is new for me as well. There are plenty of malls and stores along this road, Shanghai Time Square for the branded rich and famous stuff, Hong Kong mall, Isetan, H & M, small shops along the road and even an underground mall just for ladies called Fashion Center that sells ladies accessories, clothings, manicures and pedicures and etc. So shock! The only entrance is the escalator down from the main street going down for the mall and it is a lot of ladies there shopping, mind you!

Then we proceed to XuJiaHui for Romeo's diaper and milk before we went to coffee bar at Grand Gateway for the evening until sunset. Such a nice wonderful day! We proceed back to hotel reception for our luggage and have a cab to North Bus Station in Shanghai to come back to ZJG. Reach home at 9pm and here i am feeling great after a nice 3 days trip to this wonderful metropolis east of Jiangsu.

Wishing to have more days and more trips to there more often if i have enough funds to shop shop shop. And of course to Xintiandi at night for some night scenes. Until then, Krazybananaz out! Adios...