These are the days of My Life - Shanghai, China

It is all about the signs. I am just fascinated with the directional signs that I have run across in Shanghai on mainland China. I will share a few with you...see if you could find your way home. It is like a gigantic where is waldo. Problem is Waldo does not know where he is to start with. As I am unable to call anyone for direction as my roaming service would cost about $4 billion dollars..Thanks to Apple I-phone US. YOU SUCK. I have so been tempted to trash my I-phone for a cheaper model (local) that will do it all...but it does take great pictures. If I had a decent Mapquest program that I could pop up I would be in hog heaven...however my wifi required existence does not lead at all to the practicality of actually traveling in the busy streets of Shanghai. Yes there is a Starbucks on every corner...literally, but there isn't reliable wifi in any of the places I seem to be lost..go figure.

I spent today wandering around Shanghai. i actually purchased a subway card and used it. i went all of 1 rail stop and got off, immediately got lost attempting to follow the underground signage. I was not alone as a lovely family of British accent were also thrown down the rabbit hole without an exit. Leave it to the rambuncious teenager that wanted to get the hell outa the tunnel of shops from hell to meander around an unlabeled corner to discover our way out. Yeah! Well that only got us to daylight. We still had a ways to go to get to the actual signage that gave the fantastic directions of 3 right turns. Doesn't that put you back at the starting point. Needless to say the family moved away toward the People's Park entrance and were never seen again. I, however was detained by the ever so slick hawkers that ENDLESSLY, ever so smooth either whisper in your ear..it's eerie, or come up behind you and begin to ask cordially, where you from? My Southern hospitality is being worn thin....really, really thin!!!! There is a point in life that kindness and "Bu Yao" in Chinese means very rudely; "I don't want it". So I am sorry for any real people that I may offend but hey you asked for it. I spent about 20 minutes talking to a rather young group of 3, 2 girls and a guy about traveling, where I'm from and they also shared which was nice...probably all lies but I have learned to go with the flow. They finally got around to inviting me to go to an afternoon tea that they said was only that afternoon, however i politely one last time declined and finally made it over to the Museum area.

Great exhibition by a political cartoonist.  I have been rejected in many ways in my life but when the server at the Hong Kong Library rejects the pictures you want to upload I give up.

That would be Me at the Shanghai Art Museum.  What  a work of Art!

This is the People's Park across from the museum, Theatre Centre and Urban Planning building and Government building.  there were guards post in front of the government building so I just kept walking, whistling and walking, do not attract attention, just keep walking...

Urban Planning and development Building.  There is a whole floor with the entire city of Shanghaiin mini-scale of the entire city.  Awesome display. 

Feeding the pigeons in the park.  Sooo cute.

Some for you and .....

Some for me.  The kids each had a bag of birdseed and some of them didn't know weather to give it to the birds or eat it themselves.  So adorable.