Shanghai July 8 (oops - a little delayed)

Set off to a work function with Mr. Grumpypants, that included a delicious lunch with a large selection of hot and cold entrees. The green curry monkfish was delicious as was the roast duck (sorry Stephers - but we love duck).

Found the Blue and White Museum - It's down one of the alleys that I've been dying to explore and it's not really a museum, just a couple of rooms with some great display cabinets...it does, however, have a great little gift shop. What I really would've liked to see was the back room where all the work was happening.

Thai food for dinner - pretty close to what we can get at home, with the exception of the type of fish - we never recognize the English names they give them. But the squid is called a "fish sleeve". The other difference is that when they say it'll be spicy - they mean it - none of this guessing if the Western palette can take the heat!
The restaurant was kinda adobe style - the bathrooms had mini tv screens in them and there was a party room with chairs shaped like elephants. The mural on the wall was a beach scene, but there was also a typically Chinese limestone rock sculpture at one end.

Bathrooms have become a real point of discussion amongst travelers and knowing which places have decent ones has become important. I don't think anyone goes out without their own supply of toilet paper and we're developing our quads with the Chinese style crouchers!!