Today we met the stepbro and sis-in-law for lunch, and her mother, aunt, sister, and bestie for dinner, did a lot of walking, a lot of shopping, and generally came home exhausted.
Mum wanted to get a nice top/jacket made for the wedding dinner on Sunday night (why we're here in Shanghai in the first place), and so we went to the silk markets out near Xiananmen metro - and by 'near' I mean 'at least 1km walk away'. By the time we walked there, traipsed through three floors and walked back, my feet were killing me.
Last time we were in China, I was wearing a different pair of shoes - sneaker-type things that were reasonably comfy. While we were in Europe, the walking wasn't so energetic - most of the tour group were 60+ and their idea of 'energetic walking' was not my idea of 'energetic walking'.
This time, though, the shoes I'm wearing combined with 4-7 hour days on the feet are beginning to hurt. And today, after walking to the Silk Market, through three floors of the Silk Market, back to the metro, to the place where we were having lunch (Dapuxiao metro station), up and through the better part of five floors of what's going to be a seven-story shopping complex when it's finished and everything is open, back through a cute little maze of shops out the back of Taikang Rd (highly recommended if you're ever in Shanghai), then around and about West Nanjing Rd (we were at East Nanjing Rd last night) trying to find the SIL's favourite hotpot restaurant...
My feet were really sore. As in, crazy sore.
So sore we nearly took a taxi home. But instead we just caught the metro back to our station, and walked the few blocks home. But tomorrow is going to be a 'quiet' day.
I didn't buy any fabric! Mostly because I wanted to work out my gameplan for purchasing fabric - how much, what kinds, what I was going to make of it. But we're coming back on Sunday to pick up mum's top and there shall be purchasing. :)
Mum wanted to get a nice top/jacket made for the wedding dinner on Sunday night (why we're here in Shanghai in the first place), and so we went to the silk markets out near Xiananmen metro - and by 'near' I mean 'at least 1km walk away'. By the time we walked there, traipsed through three floors and walked back, my feet were killing me.
Last time we were in China, I was wearing a different pair of shoes - sneaker-type things that were reasonably comfy. While we were in Europe, the walking wasn't so energetic - most of the tour group were 60+ and their idea of 'energetic walking' was not my idea of 'energetic walking'.
This time, though, the shoes I'm wearing combined with 4-7 hour days on the feet are beginning to hurt. And today, after walking to the Silk Market, through three floors of the Silk Market, back to the metro, to the place where we were having lunch (Dapuxiao metro station), up and through the better part of five floors of what's going to be a seven-story shopping complex when it's finished and everything is open, back through a cute little maze of shops out the back of Taikang Rd (highly recommended if you're ever in Shanghai), then around and about West Nanjing Rd (we were at East Nanjing Rd last night) trying to find the SIL's favourite hotpot restaurant...
My feet were really sore. As in, crazy sore.
So sore we nearly took a taxi home. But instead we just caught the metro back to our station, and walked the few blocks home. But tomorrow is going to be a 'quiet' day.
I didn't buy any fabric! Mostly because I wanted to work out my gameplan for purchasing fabric - how much, what kinds, what I was going to make of it. But we're coming back on Sunday to pick up mum's top and there shall be purchasing. :)
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