At the end of this school year, we are losing a few good friends. Faith organized a ladies night out. Since Faith was organizing, it wasn’t just a simply night out!! She arranged a limo to surprise the three ladies leaving – Mary, Nani and Hilary. The limo picked up the ladies at Faith’s house at 6:30pm. Then, Jennifer and I climbed in last for pick-up at Yanlord on the way to Puxi.

In the limo, we started off with a champagne toast to an evening with good friends.

The first stop of the night was Siller’s for drinks and appetizers. I had pre-ordered the appetizers with Yoshi a week in advance. We planned for drinks and appetizers on the deck with a view of Shanghai. When I made the reservation, Yoshi asked what my rain plan was for the night as the restaurant was fully booked. I told her we had no rain plan as it wasn’t going to rain!!

As I was finishing Eleri’s birthday party, I got the call from Yoshi – “and what is that rain plan?” since rain drops were beginning to sprinkle from the sky! I asked if she could put us in the cooking school downstairs. She quickly cleaned the room from an afternoon cooking class. Yoshi took such good care of us ladies. We ate very tasty appetizers and toasted with a cocktail in the private cooking school. We did not have the fabulous view from the deck, but we enjoyed having the place all to ourselves! The ladies all decided the mini hamburgers were the best in Shanghai! This is my only good photo from Stillers that Mary took of me. I thought it was a good one to post as i actually have make-up on!!

Our next stop in the limo was Roosevelt’s – a newly remodeled building on the Bund. Again, Jennifer had gone last week to pick out the perfect table on the upper deck. They moved our party to the wine cellars on the 3rd floor.

We arranged a birthday cake for Hilary and Mary as both ladies were turning 50 soon.

It was a night filled with laughs and good friends. The limo was the icing on the cake…the beautiful weather would have been the cherrie on top!