The bund
Yesterday the weather seemed pretty fine. I checked the weather forecast which said that yesterday today and tomorrow will be the sunny days. Again it will start raining on Friday. So I decided that I must finish some of my touring on the weekdays.. I hate the rain…its very difficult to walk around with umbrella, bad, camera and the cold..
So yesterday after a lot of debating with myself and keeping in mind the project that is running in office I finally cancelled my cab at 4 and decided to go to the bund (riverside) for a river cruise. This river cruise is supposed to start only at 7 in the even (the main reason why I could not do it on Sunday when I had been there)
After 4:30, people in office seemed to start getting weird doubts. Everybody has something to ask me and it was getting late. I needed to take the shuttle to the subway station. The shuttle would leave at 5:30.peoplehere and from India had lots of questions till 5:35. I thought I missed the shuttle. But nevertheless, I thought I’ll take my chance. I rushed down. I realized that one shuttle had left. But there seemed to be one more waiting and I found that it would leave in 3 mins. I took it.
Took ticket at subway station and went straight to Nanjing road east. This was easy as I had already done it on Sunday and so no waiting anywhere and no asking. Just went the same way.
Got down at Nanjing road and walked to the bund. Got my boat ticket at 6:30. The lady asked me to come to the same place at 7. So I went to a coffee shop. Had a nice hot coffee and sat there for abt 20mins. Came out and walked back to the bund.
Hubby had asked me to take a nice professional pic …there were these people who were clicking snaps and making enlarged on the spot prints for money…I went to many of them….but they said no taking one pic…only minimum is 6 pics and that was lot of money. I was not interested in 6 pics. So just walked back to the ticket counter.
There I found a guy from California he said…and a Chinese girl with him. He was in china to teach English. The girl said she was 6 years old …older than me…and was surprised that I was married because I was younger than her. She thought I was much younger than I actually said. She told me a 10 times that I was beautiful and that my eyes were great. I have no idea with what eyes she was looking at me….I do look at the mirror everyday and I seriously don’t find what she said…anyway…
Then came the bus that would take us to the boat place…in the bus I sat next to a lady…she asked me do u know English. I was happy..i said yes…and then she said she was Korean…of course broken English..but it was ok.
She also wanted a pic with me as I was beautiful…I was amazed…. I decided that I had to go home an check once if I had changed after being in China
When we got off the bus, a girl came running to me. She was the Korean lady’s daughter who also thought I was too beautiful…my god!!…now I was kind of not sure if it was true or just simply people say this to anyone who is a foreigner..
The boat was great. It was a coffee shop set up. I took a place next to the window. It was a weekday. So no crowd. …I was alone on my table which I liked. We could order coffee and snacks if we wanted. But since I just had coffee I dint order again.
It was warm and great….again JUST NOT A PLACE TO BE ALONE…
There was also an open place where we could stand. I went out…go some snaps. Everyone wanted to help me take pics. So I gladly got a few pics of myself clicked on my cam. Got some pics with the Korean ladies and the Californian guy and his companion Chinese girl.
Then just sat at my table looking out at the lights. There was an English and Chinese explanation of what is it that we see on the banks…
It was a great ride for one hour. After which the bus took us back to our initial place. I got a taxi from there back to the apartment..
I had some office work to do which I did. A dinner which I had made in the morning itself (thank god). Spoke to hubby and went to sleep like a log at around 11.
Today it is sunnier than yesterday. So will go to the tower in the evening…hope I can. Lets see….
