Girl's Night Out

Last night was the Daddy Daughter Dance for girl scouts, so I had a free pass to go out. Four of us decided to head down to the Promenade on Pudong side of the river. We went to Binjiang 1 and had a wonderful meal and good New Zealand Pinot Noir. For the first time in several weeks, it turned out to be a clear night. So we enjoyed the view of the river and all of the boat traffic moving around in the water.

After our fantastic dinner we headed over the Shanghai World Financial Center, the 2nd tallest building in the world. it was my first visit there and I must admit that I was a bit underwhelmed. Our plan was to go up to the bar area on the 93 floor. The bar is a part of the Park Hyatt, which occupies most of the top floors of the building, not sure how many. The entrance to building, which is adjacent to the entrance for the observation tower, is very nondescript. In fact, it was difficult to know if we were going the right way. Of course the two bottles of wine at dinner could have attributed to that problem. But the whole is building is ultra modern, which apparently translates to "make it difficult for simple folk to find us". But we did find an elevator, which took us to the 91 floor, where the hotel check-in is. From there we took another elevator which went to the 92 floor and headed to the Century 100 Bar. However, there was a 400RMB/person charge for a table at a window. What a crock! We decided the view from the bar was OK for us. There was a band playing, so it seemed like it would be fun. Unfortunately it appeared the band was some reject from the US, with the female singer singing rock songs like they were Jazz standards. I do not usually associate The Police "Every step you take" as a normal Jazz song. The crowd was an interesting mix of traveling business men and rich Chinese couples out for a drink and some live music. Oh, and us! While we were sitting at the bar we noticed some crazy tall drink glasses which seemed out of place in such a nice place. Would have more at home at a bar with "Yard of Beer" night. We stayed until 11 so we could get our free drink which they served us in the crazy tall glass. It was a strawberry something and very tasty. Even better was that it was free. Plus the bar tender told us to come back on ladies night when the drinks are more affordable!

After our drinks, we decided to head home. At the main entry, we had to mess with the strange sculpture that decorated the wall near the elevators. Three things reaching out from the wall was too funny for us to take a usual picture. Yes, that is me giving one a kiss on the head. Weird...

But we had a lot of laughs and as always, it is good to have lots of girl talk. So, until the next night away, I toast Kathy, Kathy, and Angie with a big "I love you guys..."