Day 9 and 10 of Honeymoon

So on Monday and Tuesday, Cyrus was with us and we had plenty of time to slow down and do whatever we wanted in Shanghai. We checked into the Crowne Plaza and were lucky enough to get bumped up twice and get access to the club floor (woohoo! open bar and free food!). Our hotel was in a pretty good area - old British/French Concession and near Hwa hai, Shanghai's Fifth Ave.

On Monday we went to visit the Shanghai Museum, one of China's finest. It's fascinating to see their exhibits because their artifacts are all so old, yet advanced. In California, I've seen stuff that was maybe 1000 years old, but looked primitive. At the Shanghai Museum we saw stuff that was super advanced for its time. Here's a wine vessel that's over 2000 years old - the tag says early 6th century - 476 B.C.

After the museum we walked across the street to Capitaland, a huge mall. It was like, 9 stories and completely filled with shoppers.

Guess what store this is:

For dinner we met up with Cyrus' friend at a nice restaurant in the French Concession. It was one of our pricer meals at about US$50 for the four of us.

On Tuesday we went to visit the Shanghai Aquarium, with the world's longest underwater tunnel. To be honest, I really wasn't looking forward to going, but I'm so glad we went. We got to see a lot of stuff that I've never seen in the US.

This is a weird albino turtle:

And here is a very frank story that they had on a huge display:

Afterwards we decided to be adventurous and wandered over to a place called "Insect Kingdom" which turned out to be a really sad wannabe zoo that sold the animals it had on display.

Cooling off in McDonald's with a taro pie! Yum!

Me and my bro in Pudong, with the Huangpu and Puxi behind us.