Shanghai With Mom and Dad

Last stop, Shanghai.  First thing Dad wants to do is eat at this Taiwanese Noodle Shop!!

It's official, I'm addicted to my iPhone!  Dad catches me texting.

Saturday night on East Nanjing Road!!  Time for some lights and shopping.

A foggy Pudong from The Bund.

One of the highlights of our trip to Shanghai?  My score on the hotel!!  It is called the Shanghai Fenyang Garden Hotel and it was fantastic.  I found a deal online for $100 a night per room.

It is in the heart of the French Concession, right off the corner from Huaihai Road, and built on the grounds of a former estate!

On Marl's suggestion, a trip to the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition.

One very cool thing is the scale model of Shanghai!!!

Overlooking People's Park.

Mom and Dad at the very touristy Fengcheng (?) Temple area.

If teaching doesn't work out.....

Last night in Shanghai was spent over in Pudong.  Here looking up that the Jinmao Tower in the middle, the Shanghai World Financial Center on the right and the still under construction (and tallest of the three) Shanghai Tower.

My proof Mom was there.  You can see the back of her head, and outline of her hair, blocking the view!

Expensive but fantastic tea in the lounge.

We loved breakfast at the corner of Xiangyang Road and Changle Road.  All little shops serving great breakfast.

We were partial to this place with the "Melrose Pizzeria" sign.  There was no pizza in sight.

This girl runs the stand I ate at when I came to Shanghai back in August 2012.  Then Marlene, Eleni and Kendra ate at her stand when they were here. 

Shanghai is great in that they have lots of public green space.  The city feels incredibly European and it is, I hate to say it, superior to Beijing.  Here the locals are in Xiangyang Park.

Mom, Dad and I brought breakfast to the park and had breakfast in the park.  How cute are these two???