Girls Weekend!

The ladies here have all been wanting to do a weekend trip for some time now. Originally we wanted a flight weekend getaway, however with all of our husband's crazy travel schedules we just couldn't swing it. However, we did manage to plan a weekend in Shanghai.

 

We started at our 'Black Friday' early Saturday morning. It was a Christmas bazaar with over 150 vendors and was a mad house!!! However, got some great gifts so it was worth it :) Headed out to lunch and then off for our sidecar tour.

 

Still waiting to get everyone else's pictures from our tour, but here are a couple of mine. We had 8 ladies, 4 drivers, and 4 cars. We split up into 2 groups and went on a 3 hour tour of Shanghai. It was awesome to see the city in such a different way! Scary at times, yes... But awesome!!! We stopped and got off a couple times and visited some new sites. One of them was called 1933, an old slaughter house turned into a cool shopping area. And the other was an old building that was used a Japanese base back in the day. However, the highlight was just driving around :)

 

 

Kat and Chris

Turned around and they stalled right in the middle of the intersection!! LOL

 

My partner in crime, Shauna

Our cool hotel. The kids would've loved the light up tub and sinks. They also had 'mood' lighting above the bed :) Very techy hotel!

 

 

After our tour we had a drink and then headed over to our hotel, Andaz in Xintiandi. We booked a suite, and 3 other king rooms. Kat and I had the suite with a connecting room. Had a couple pre-dinner drinks and headed out to Kabb to eat some good food! Then headed over to Brown Sugar where we had a table booked and did a lot of drinking and dancing (or for me people watching! lol). Listened to a great live band and headed back to the hotel around 2. Stayed up and talked until 4 and then hit the sack.

 

Woke up feeling ok, just tired and went down for breakfast. We then all went to Dragonfly and got foot massages :) Made it home by 3:00pm and Susan told me I looked bad and tired! LOL.. She stayed longer so I could go take a nap and she took the kids outside and Brady to KungFu. Woke up at 6:00 to them coming home. REALLY going to miss her!!!

 

As a going away gift, my friends paid for my weekend!!! They are such an amazing, generous, thoughtful group of women. It is really starting to hit me how much I am going to miss them :(

However, I am so thankful that I was put here in China to meet them and will continue to have them all in my life no matter where I am!!!