Street Fighter

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You know what surprises me, that after knowing Randy for 33 years(!) and being with him for 13 and married for 8 there are still things about him that I never knew. With three kids who need attention ALL the time, we definitely have less time to talk about everything not kid related, so once a year we try to sneak away for a vacation without the kids when a Grandma is visiting. Last year I was pregnant with Miral and not allowed to travel, so took advantage while Grandma Gertch was here. We headed out to Shangia and coming first circle to what I started with, when we arrived and were out and about on a walk Randy told me he had always wanted to come to Shanghai. I told him I never knew that and he replied with, yeah ever since Street Fighter. What I loved so much about this comment is that I never even knew that Randy wanted to even go to Shanghai  AND i loved that it immediately made me remember 12 year old Randy who would be playing Street Fighter in his childhood home with James Boyce.   
We had a friends birthday party the night before that went a little late, but we didn’t care because we had no kids with us and could sleep the entire flight. 

We checked in and luckily the hotel we were staying at had a gas mask….in all of my travels I’ve never seen this. I still haven’t figured out what this is for.

We changed and headed out for drinks and dinner. Shanghai has the coolest restaurants and bars and great food. We went touristy the first night to a cool place with the best views and it was worth it. 

The next morning we headed out for some Shanghai shopping.

And of course we had to stop for some amazing soup dumplings for lunch. These were the BEST soup dumplings we have ever had and I think this was the best meal we had the whole trip and it was literally a hole in the wall.

We went back to the hotel to get ready and headed to the Waldorf for the best happy hour!

Then we headed to this restaurant in an old home. It was in a beautiful space but we ordered all wrong…the highlight of which was chicken in ice and some fatty belly of an unknown animal… 

The next morning we headed out on a long walk to see as much of Shanghai as we could.

On our Shanghai travels we found an old tea house. It was full of beautiful antiques.

Shanghai has the most beautiful details snuck into a bustling city. 

After a long day of sightseeing we headed back to the Waldorf Long Bar, our favorite place in Shangai.

Then we headed out for a food tour. This was all Randy’s idea. I wasn’t sold. But it ended up being super fun and the food was amazing! The places were all little random small restaurants and they were all so good! We also tried all these new foods, jellyfish, rabbit heads (I skipped this one) and Chinese strawberries.

The next morning we made one final stop before our flight to the Propaganda poster museum. No pictures were allowed. But I snuck these in, lots and lots of Mao. 

Oh and we also made sure to sneak in one last soup dumpling restaurant, because when in Shangai!

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