Rewind.... Last week in China with Mom!

The best graduation/birthday present: a week in China!  Thanks Mom and Dad!

           Welcome to Shanghai!  Day One.  Exploring the area around the hotel. 

                               Cloud 9 Mall.  You would think it only has 9
                                            floors, but it actually has 12!

                                     Escalators all the way up.

                              Meat on a stick in liquid... never could figure
                                              out which meats they were.

                                              Carrefour supermarket

                  The hotel- Renaissance of Zhongshan Park

                 Peking duck- a delicacy in China that originated in Beijing. 

                  My attempt at being artsy in the elevator. 

                  Mom back in her element!  It's all about the pearls!

            The never-ending A.P. market.  We went for hours every day
          and never even saw the whole thing.  It is huge and has the best shopping.  

                              Our favorite electronics booth- Penny's

                                             Mom and I at lunch at the AP market. 

                                                   The menu.  The pictures help!

                      White rice with vegetables, marinated daikon, miso soup,
                              beef noodle bowl, and a milkshake!

                                          Delicious pork dumplings

                                                       Mom and Katie with Sarah!

 One of my favorite lunches that we had there.  This is in the new restaurant that we discovered in the AP market and it had lots of tasty fried food, steamed rice, fried rice, and cold pijo (beer).  This was only half of our food and the bill for everything was$6!  Finally a place where the dollar is strong (well strong enough). 

                                             with Mom and Katie at lunch.

                                       Peepa!  A new favorite fruit- a mix
                               between a peach and a cantaloupe.  So cute too!

                                   The AP market is an underground maze
                                           and this is the view from above. 

                                                    more street food!

                          Chinese pizza made on the inside of a trashcan.

                            New job option for Mom if she moves to China.

                               Those are three of the pizzas cooking on the inside...
                                                they are 20 cents per pizza.
     

                       This man wasn't thrilled about having his picture taken.

                                                 Lounge area of the hotel

            Dinner at "Grandma's."  This is my favorite way to eat over there because you order everything that looks good to you and then you put it on the giant lazy susan in the middle of the table and pass it all around.  All of this food was $11 per person.

                                                         Lunch with Adam!

                                                         Pearl Tower

                                     Shopping for linen at the cloth market with Adam.

   Everything was much easier once we found 

our own personal translator!  Thanks Adam!

                                      Lots of rice, fried corn pizza with mayo,
                                              spicy green beans, etc.  Yum!

                 Mom and I in a cab going somewhere... I'm guessing we're trying 

to find yet another kind of market!

Thanks for a great trip!