Shanghai ~ Thursday night

I am so in love with Shanghai. This post will have lots and lots of pictures because I'm in love with the Shanghai skyline!

Our tour bus dropped us off at a street called Nanjing Road. It's a big shopping street kind of like Florida y La Valle in Buenos Aires but looks more like Times Square - about 8-9 blocks of stores and stores and stores!! 

But before walking down Nanjing, we went to a place they call the bund. It's like a boardwalk across from the tall buildings on the opposite side of the river. 

View from the bund (with rain!)

Huge statue of Chen Yi  ... Vines on the wall ... And skyline

Nanjing Road

Macaroons inside a department store full of Chinese food

Roots inside that same store

Some spikey fruit (same store)

Silver plated mural in the Peace Hotel lobby

Giant Chen Yi statue at the bund. 

Close up of wall (vines of different colors)

Shanghai skyline with clouds and mist. SO GORGEOUS!!!!

Me, falling in love with Shanghai!

Cool Gotham-looking statue at the Bund

Then we loaded out cruise boat The Shanghai Scenery. We had dinner and a show and cruised the river for 1.5 hours. The clouds were in and out so sometimes you could see the tops of buildings and sometimes they were covered and misty. The lights were beautiful and it's just hard to describe HOW ENCHANTING it was. Maybe the pictures will show it some, but you have to multiply it by 100 to know how I felt actually being there. 

El Capitan ;)

Giovanni & Chris

After the cruise, we jumped on the bus and had a 3 hour drive to Hangzhou where I collapsed into my bed (that felt like a box spring without a mattress on it! Nice and sturdy!)