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It is very strange going to your long time friend’s – Daughter’s – Bat Mitzvah….
Especially when I went to the Dad’s Bar Mitzvah as a kid.
So much fun and so amazing to have such a long time connection with someone.
A little paparazzi action with my good friends Vicky, Brian and Rob. I’ve known them since kindergarten!
Headed home!
This past Wednesday I participated in another Shanghai and Beyond tour. This one was a whole day on sericulture – silkworm farming.
We visited a silk bedding factory, a family that raises the worms and then a mulberry orchard.
I realized how little I knew about silk!
Did you know that silkworms are blind?
That 8000 cocoons are needed to created 3lbs of silk floss?
That this type of silkworm only eats mulberry leaves?
That there is a Spring and Fall season? And that the Spring silk is more expensive because the worms have less predators in the Spring, thus producing stronger silk?
It was a great day with great people!
Michael and the factory owner.
Aren’t they cute!
The owner’s home whete we had lunch
Examples of the cocoons
Spreding out the silk to make a duvet
Quite odd – in the bathhroom they had a turtle and some eels. Maybe for dinner?
Every night at our hotel there is a speciality item featured at dinner. Thursday night is Peking Duck.
Needless to say Thursday is our favorite night!
The whole set up!
The chef who knows how much I love those delicious little pancakes!
Opened yesterday in Shanghai in anticipation of Shanghai Disneyland opening in 2016!
I walk by this restaurant often – always busy at lunch.
Who knew there was a night crowd as well…
Funny thing is – it’s the first creature I have seen in China!
While walking around on Sunday we walked into a mall that had a panda exhibit. There were a ton of them!
Rich and decided to explore a new area on Sunday and visited a cool pop up shop that had music, drinks, clothing and jewelry (both new and vintage).
It was quite the Chinese hipster scene…
Cool space – Sunday a shop/most nights a club.
Fun ring I bought.
Suzhou Creek
After strolling through the Gubei area of Shanghai we decided to stop to relax with a nice bottle of wine.
