Spring break in Shanghai. Most of our friends went to Singapore to play, but we stayed since the “money pit” is taking all of our extra funds these days. Rachael and family were in town, therefore, we planned a day out in Shanghai. We went to the Urban Planning Museum – always a good thing to do on a NON-CHINESE holiday. We had the place to ourselves and we enjoy seeing the displays.

The first display at the entrance is the Shanghai Pudong skyline. We all commented the scale was all wrong as the Pearl Tower is not taller than the WFC!

We all laughed at the model of Xintiandi.

Our favorite was the Starbucks coffee shop on the corner – just like at the real Xintiandi.

We loved the little man that had fallen over as it looks like he was run over by the car…just like in real Shanghai!

The very large floor model was fun for everyone to find landmarks throughout Shanghai.

Eleri posed for me at various “photo ops” with a big smile! Most of them being her idea of the perfect photo op!

A photo of Emerysn just to prove she was with us!

From the Museum, we went to the real Xintiandi for a coffee/juice at Starbucks…just like the model!

We walked around Xintiandi for about an hour. The kids had fun looking in the various shops at Xintiandi.

We had dinner at a new Chinese restaurant, The Fortune Cookie. We all enjoyed the meal and were too full for our dessert plan of chocolate at Whisk. We decided to walk around TaiKan Lu. TaiKan Lu was a funky shopping area when I first arrived in Shanghai…now, it is very touristy with a new name for the area – Tianzifang. I hadn’t been there at night so it was fun to see all the lights and the kids had fun shopping in the stores. We walked around for about an hour to get ready for our chocolate dessert at Whisk.

Then, we went to Whisk for about an hour. The “about an hour” was becoming our joke of the night as Rachael’s driver was driving us around Puxi. Eleri and I shared my favorite dessert, the warm chocolate cake.

When we arrived back to our place, the family came up for a drink/hang…we told the driver “about an hour”, but it was much longer! It was a beautiful night to sit out on the deck to enjoy the view. We watched them pull very large items up the crane on the building in progress.

It was a fun day playing in Shanghai with our friends!