Before I came home I had to make one more Shanghai Lisa Pearl run so I took Penny with me. She had never gone to Shanghai before but she sort of got gypped on her first trip. It was rainy, foggy and cold most of the time. Before our 2 hour marathon Lisa Pearl purchases we did a couple of touristy things such as walk to the Bund and go up to the top of the Oriental Pearl tower but unfortunately visibility was very limited at both. Only excitement of the day was that my credit card was declined because of either the large purchase amount or due to not getting conformation caused by the broken Tiawan Internet cable. The only phone number I knew by heart of one of the pearl purchasing persons was Paula. (say that 5 times fast) Now you have to understand that Paula really enjoys her sleep. I have already been in the doghouse a couple of times when I woke her during one of our trips. So I was really leary of waking her in the middle of the night (1:30am) for her credit card number. But it had to be done or the two hours of waiting while all the girls double knotted the pearls would have been for naught. Sorry Paula and thanks!
Oh – wait – we did have one more noteable event. In the Yu Garden/ old town area they have lots of small junkie stalls where I found a “Hello Kitty” Pin. I had been looking for one of these because when the Chinese kids say hi to me it always sounded like “Hello Kitty” – not Hello Katie. A couple of the kids even thought that Kitty was my name (and probably still think) and gave me some Hello Kitty paraphernalia.
