Today was another amazing day that was pretty jam-packed. Bryan and I needed to do our laundry considering I only had one pair of socks left, but failed miserably. The lady spoke no English so we ended up pulling out a calendar and she pointed to come back Monday. This was pretty unfortunate after lugging our laundry halfway across campus; looks like I’ll be doing some laundry in the sink. After that little mishap, we decided to start our day. We added John to our travel group and headed across the river to Pudong. We hit up the Shanghai Aquarium, which was really impressive.
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| Penguins! |
My favorite part was probably when we took an escalator down a floor and it was completely surrounded by a full fish tank. There were also these really cool tunnels surrounded by tanks with moving walkways, which ended up making us all pretty nauseous by the end of it. After we got out into the gift shop we decided to check out the picture they had taken of us at the beginning. It turned out to be hilarious because John was wearing a green jacket so when they would change the backgrounds behind us, his shirt would change with them. He ended up getting the one that looked like he had a coat with a jellyfish pattern on it while the rest of us got one where you can’t really notice it.
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| My postcard |
After the aquarium we headed back across the river and to the Urban Planning Museum in People’s Square. I didn’t have that high of expectations considering it was just another museum, but I was absolutely blown away. There were 4 floors of different things, the most impressive of which including a scaled model of all of Shanghai and a 360 degree movie room. The model of Shanghai was one of the craziest things I have ever seen. It transitioned from day to night and all of the buildings would light up, making it even more impressive.
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| Urban Planning Museum entrance |
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| Shanghai scale model |
There was all sorts of cool stuff and I felt like I could have entertained myself there all day but we decided we wanted to try to pack one more thing into our busy day – Xiantandi. Xiantandi is this district with this little pedestrian strip of shops and restaurants (we saw a replica of it at the museum) which is very upscale and decorated really nicely with lights everywhere. We decided some night we will have to “suit up” and have a nice meal down there. After we walked around for a while we decided it was time to head back and once again Bryan and I resorted to street food and were so happy to eat it in bed with our feet up after such a long day.
I then worked on some homework until I got recruited to go to this club on the Bund. I was a little skeptical at first because we had to have this password to get in and were supposedly going to have our own table and free drinks. My skepticism ended quite quickly when we walked in the door and were instantly greeted with Jager shots poured through an ice sculpture. The night only got better when our table just kept getting served bottles of Grey Goose like it was nothing. We didn’t even have to order them, they just kept bringing them out! The club was so unbelievably nice I didn’t even know what to do. It felt like I was in a James Bond movie or Ocean’s Eleven or something because there were lasers everywhere. I was so tempted to try all dodge them all on the way to the bathroom but I somehow managed to restrain myself.
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| Bike sculpture outside of the club |
They had an awesome illuminating dance floor and an amazing view of the skyline with tons of reserved tables, making us feel pretty important. They basically had strippers dancing around and at one point kicked us all off stage so they could put on a show that was basically a bit with two girls in police outfits combined with a guy pulling some Magic Mike moves. The whole night was seriously unlike anything I have ever been a part of before. Adam and I decided we wanted to try to get back by a decent hour but then realized I had checked my coat with 2 other girls, neither of which I could find. I went looking for them and eventually found out the one who had our ticket had been missing for hours and the other had been looking for her. After much searching, I just decided to head home without my coat. Imagine trying to tell someone who speaks no English that you want your coat that looks like every other black coat in the hundreds they are holding. Yea… So I managed to find someone who spoke decent English and made sure they would have my coat if I came back in the morning and they assured me it would, so I headed out. Luckily on my way out I heard they had found the missing girl and the other girl promised to get my coat for me, so that was good timing. Even though Adam and I managed to make it home at a decent hour we still ended up staying up until 5:30 yet again but it was just such a good night we didn’t want it to end (Luke Bryan didn’t help us there). Needless to say I will definitely be tagging around with that crew again to check out some more crazy clubs!
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