Yesterday after breakfast, Fiona and I headed to Remin Park. SOOOO incredible! I had never experienced anything like it. There were people everywhere!!! And they were all busy either dancing, playing badminton, doing tai chi, playing music....my hear sweled with happiness! hahaha...no but seriously I was ridiculously happy to be there.
I wish we had public spaces/parks like this...I mean we do...but we often don't make great use of them. We even saw groups of people dancing on street corners (with music and all) it just adds so much life and energy to the atmosphere.
At the park of the locals dragged us in to dance with them (well it didn't really take much dragging, we kinda hopped right into it). We spent a good hour or two dancing and walking around the park watching people do their thaang! We then went to one of the tea houses in the park, ordered tea by the pond and just relaxed and wrote post cards.
The tea houses are amazing and so relaxing, but they're pretty funny too though cause you have people coming around asking if you want a massage or your ears cleaned. Yes! Your ears cleaned! haha. They come around with dental-looking tools and clean peoples ears. It's not the most appetizing thing, but it was amusing.
We headed back to the hotel, met up with the group and went to the airport.
In a few hours, we were in Shanghai!
It was already dark when we got there, but we really wanted to go to a night market so we were told to head over to the Yu Gardens. I reeeeally wanted to try something crazy like scorpion or something while in China...but I never found it...and turns out Yu market isn't the place to find it either. It wasn't really the type of market we were looking for, everything was closed, but there were some shops and restaurants opened and the Market/Garden itself looked spectacular all lit up at night!...so the adventure turned out to be a success after all!...plus we had dumplings and ice cream...amongst all the lights..can't go wrong with that! :o)
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