a day at the museum

nice museum, this. and by nice, i mean it is a manageable size with artifacts i can relate to (textiles! furniture! art! i wish they have jewelry too!) a reasonable distance from accommodations and with no entrance fee. this ranks up there with other favorite museums.

tea (again)

they should give a best-friends-of-luckin membership. we'd qualify in a heartbeat.

teatime

i've got HOM onto the multiple-meals-a-day habit. first supper. now tea as well.

in any case, the chocolate mousse cake from sunflour cafe is decadently good.

lunchtime

economy rice, shanghai style. yummo.

prerequisite: shanghai smoked fish from laozhengxing on fuzhou road.

airbnb

we hole up at an airbnb, thanks to Y's research, us two middle-agers more attuned to hotel breakfasts and turn-down service than to self-servicing on vacation.

here's the conclusion:

• unbeatable location in the heart of the tourist action
• nestled amongst lawsons luckins and real eateries
• all the mod cons (everything a hotel has, with more space)
• including wall art (tacky but still)
• white light and white or black everything everywhere (triple ugh)
• enormous wall projection screen (wasted on us laptop-totters)

plus i learn to use a new contraption.

laundry day

here's the dryer contraption at the airbnb. no-frills luddite-compatible totally effective warm air delivery set-up.

the washer takes a lot of guess work coupled with google translate, as usual. but the dryer inspires me to do another load soon!

mercato

excellent food lovely view great company. one of those evenings where you feel the cup runneth over.

am thankful.