HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Piano in the IFC Mall……………..

Bird lovers bring their birds to the park to make friends……..

Dinner - and you guessed it……………Chinese!!!!!!!

Dinner Monday Night - Chinese, of course.
This is a local restaurant I have been to before. Authentic, local Chinese- Dawn was not sure, but it was good!

 Forgot to take photos BEFORE  the meal- above- fried dumplings filled with pork

 Rice with shrimp and pork and vegetables

 A little "croaker" fish that I ate without choking on the bones- yeah!

Salad!!!!!!!!!! I find it more than usual these days - nice to accompany ANY meal!

Lujiazui District Pudong: Super Brand Mall and IFC Mall

Hit the Financial area of Shanghai today with two high-end malls in the Luijiazui District.

"Western"lunch today- excellent!

For big bums, and for ,well…….little bums. Do we have these in Canada?

Honestly, rich people will buy anything……………….

Birds in the Park by the Jewish Museum

Walking the North Bund on a perfect Sunday evening with Danny and Dawn

A Day with Dawn and Danny in the Hongkou District of Shanghai…………wonderful!

It started with a visit to Hongkou Plaza and a wonderful lunch in a Chinese restaurant. Curry shrimp for me- Taiwan egg bread and steamed buns for Dawn.

 Curried shrimp

 The name of our restaurant- no English

 The Jewish Refugee Museum

 Where the "stateless" Jews lived in Hongkou

 The restoration Wall of the Jewish settlement…..who knew???

 Danny and Dawn

 Guided Tour - in English

 Danny and his Mom and Dad in their apartment

 Dinner cooked by Mom - but especially  Dad. Pork, Chicken, soup, bamboo shoots, rice, red wine, "stinky" tofu with greens

 Walk along the North Bund at night after dinner

Sunday June 29th - The Jewish Refugee Museum, Shanghai - and a home-cooked Chinese meal

My Chinese colleague- Danny - sent a lovely invitation to tour Dawn and I around the Jewish Refugee Museum this afternoon, take us back to his home where his parents will cook us an early dinner - and then walk the North Bund. Dawn is definitely up for this plan. Considering she had NO sleep on her 14-hour trip to China, I am so pleased with her resilience!  We do not have to meet him until 2 pm. - which will give her some time to sleep today………..

The Eagle has landed…………….DAWN!!!!

Her flight was not great, but she landed 15 minutes early(????).
Had a Starbucks moment  before lining up for a taxi.
When she learned I had been upgraded to a "suite", she marched back down to the front desk to ask why.
After some interesting deliberations with both "Kevin" and "Michael" - she got upgraded to a suite like mine - one floor above me.


This is mine - already "lived in"

Had a rather late dinner at a "Chinese" Pizza restaurant - then hassled poor "Kevin" for Internet in the room- (mine was working - Dawn's was not) problems with Dawn's safe- etc, etc, BUT SHE IS HERE AND REAL HOLIDAYS START TOMORROW!!!!