Day 3 - Sunday

After a pleasurable OK tolerable 10 hour flight with Virgin, where I had the chance to catching up on my films by watching High School Musical 3, Brideshead Revisited, Burn after Reading and the first half of My Best Friends Girl - Gaz by the way managed to watch The Incredible hulk, Hancock and Dark Knight - we finally touched down in Pu Dong airport at 07:20am (00:20 uk time). This is one of the nicest airports I have ever seen - quiet and organised, no screaming kids to be heard - which was very different to the plane journey!

Immigration was nice and quick - although I think Gaz was a bit dissapointed that he wasn't questioned or searched!! Poor guy has only left the Uk once before I think he was expecting a little more - there wasn't even and police with guns for him to comment on - the funnies sight was the chinese lady we saw coming of the plane who was dancing from side to side - and he asked if we could take one home with us!!

Oh and I forgot to mention we spent the entire plane journey with deportee - he was a scary looking fella..



We finally arrived at Sam n Jodie's home for the duration of their stay in Shangai - the Shimao Riviera Gardens all i can say is the place is gorgoeus..more pics will follow






View of the river and Pu Xi from Sam n Jodies apartment, 39 floors up, it was a little bit of a smoggy day!!








View from our room - apparently the blue roofs are to prevent the birds from dropping their droppingson them...??







S & J decided to take us for a walk aound the block - By the way - this was one hell of a huge block! so it involved a stop off the local.






We stopped off at the ATM to grab some beer money - this statue was keeping guard!

Garry was impressed in Max's Bar that he could light up and drink his Bud without having to go outside and freeze - whilst I on the other hand was remebering what passive smoking in bars was like..lol... and not being a smoker I must say the ban is a good thing!!!







So after a little taste of Chinese happy hour it was back to the room for a proper nights sleep - This is the view of the river and Pu Xi at night from the apartment...




Depending on how long the little blighters keep setting firecrackers and fireworks off we might actually get our first proper nights sleep since Thursday!!!

Keep coming back for more updates on our trip