Day 2 - Sunday in Shanghai
January 24, 2010
Today I got up early (considering I fell asleep at 7:45pm last night) and went down to the gym in the hotel and ran my 5k. It's amazing how much easier it is to run 3.14 miles when it's counting off in kilometers - because the treadmill ticks up so much faster in K's than miles!
I will need to take some pictures of the gym tomorrow morning - while they have a huge selection of equipment, it's all circa 1983! It's actually amusing! They have an aerobics room with a VHS player and workout videos. The selection included: Cindy Crawford's aerobic video and Christy Brinkley's workout video. (again, circa 1983!)
We met in the restaurant for breakfast and I tried some white fruit that was speckled with little black seeds. It almost reminded me of kiwi, but white instead of green. It's called Dragon Fruit and it didn't have much flavor - but very interesting to look at!
We met up with Ken and the kids to go to Parker's basketball game and see their school. Since we had time, we were dropped off at mall which was attached to a grocery store (check out some of the pictures from the market!) It was wild!! We then went to Parker's game (they won!) and then met up with Jenny to buy some movies.
I didn't go quite as crazy as Cheryl (buying 116 movies!!) - I picked up 20, plus the entire series of Sex in the City. You'll be shocked at the titles I picked up on DVD and BluRay:
Thank you for Smoking, Angels & Demons, Disney's Earth, The Dark Knight, Gran Torino, Confessions of a Shopaholic, He's Just not that into You, Marley & Me, The Bucket List, Sunshine Cleaning, Sideways, Santa Buddies, Sex in the City movie, The Invention of Lying, Sherlock Holmes, The Lovely Bones (just came out in the theaters two weeks ago), Julie & Julia, It's Complicated (out only 3 weeks), The Blind Side (all for about $1-2 each). I spent about $40 US to get 20 movies, plus the entire tv series!
If anyone has any requests - let me know, we're going back next weekend! They have TONS of entire series from TV, HBO, Showtime, etc. - all for about $5-12 each.
We went to another Mart (much like a Sam's Club or Costco), went back to the apartment, had some GREAT dinner and watched Sherlock Holmes.
Off to work tomorrow - lots of meetings set up for this week. I'm sure we'll find some things to do in the evenings as well. More photos to come ...
I will need to take some pictures of the gym tomorrow morning - while they have a huge selection of equipment, it's all circa 1983! It's actually amusing! They have an aerobics room with a VHS player and workout videos. The selection included: Cindy Crawford's aerobic video and Christy Brinkley's workout video. (again, circa 1983!)
We met in the restaurant for breakfast and I tried some white fruit that was speckled with little black seeds. It almost reminded me of kiwi, but white instead of green. It's called Dragon Fruit and it didn't have much flavor - but very interesting to look at!
We met up with Ken and the kids to go to Parker's basketball game and see their school. Since we had time, we were dropped off at mall which was attached to a grocery store (check out some of the pictures from the market!) It was wild!! We then went to Parker's game (they won!) and then met up with Jenny to buy some movies.
I didn't go quite as crazy as Cheryl (buying 116 movies!!) - I picked up 20, plus the entire series of Sex in the City. You'll be shocked at the titles I picked up on DVD and BluRay:
Thank you for Smoking, Angels & Demons, Disney's Earth, The Dark Knight, Gran Torino, Confessions of a Shopaholic, He's Just not that into You, Marley & Me, The Bucket List, Sunshine Cleaning, Sideways, Santa Buddies, Sex in the City movie, The Invention of Lying, Sherlock Holmes, The Lovely Bones (just came out in the theaters two weeks ago), Julie & Julia, It's Complicated (out only 3 weeks), The Blind Side (all for about $1-2 each). I spent about $40 US to get 20 movies, plus the entire tv series!
If anyone has any requests - let me know, we're going back next weekend! They have TONS of entire series from TV, HBO, Showtime, etc. - all for about $5-12 each.
We went to another Mart (much like a Sam's Club or Costco), went back to the apartment, had some GREAT dinner and watched Sherlock Holmes.
Off to work tomorrow - lots of meetings set up for this week. I'm sure we'll find some things to do in the evenings as well. More photos to come ...
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