Asia - Day 5, October 12, 2015

I awoke to a great card from my best friend, my wife wishing me a Happy Birthday.  What a way to celebrate – to wake up in Shanghai, China.

 

This is our last day so we got up early and had breakfast in the Executive Lounge.  While this Marriott is a little more expensive, having a great breakfast, wonderful room and more food in the evening in the lounge is a great perk.

 

We then took a cab to a true antique market, which was actually about 6 city blocks of outside stalls selling everything that was supposed to be old – or at least they looked old!!

 

We had fun walking through it and even bought a couple of things.

 

Then we took a cab back to the hotel and walked the couple of blocks to the huge indoor market where we finished covering the floors that we had missed yesterday.  Barb bought a couple of pairs of Toms, two purses and a few other items.  Ed found the iPhone 6 screen protector that he was looking for.  The prices were amazing and what fun to bar gin.

 

Then we went back to the hotel to wait for our guide and drive take us to the port and start our cruise.

 

Riley and the driver picked us up promptly at 2:00pm for the short ride to the cruise port.  He had asked us the day before if we knew where the port was and we brought the information about the port that we had.  The problem was that they did not know where the cruise port was.  They first went to a small port and they didn’t know anything about our ship.  Finally, after a lot of “problems” we saw our ship in the distance and made it. 

 

Check in was as usual a breeze and we were in our room and heading for food by 4:00pm.  We ate, walked around a littler, set up the internet and went back to the room to unpack and try to get the blogs on the internet.

 

We went to dinner at our usual time of 8:30pm and met a nice, well-traveled couple from England.  The rest of the people at our table were not there so hopefully they will be there tomorrow.

 

Then it was on to the Casino where we met our Host and the Casino Manager, who also just arrived today.  We also saw several dealers who we had played with before.

 

As it will be a long cruise, we did not gamble to night but we did go to the show and it was a sample of the entertainment for the two weeks.

 

Time to go to bed and I am sorry, but the pictures will not load.  Will try again tomorrow.

 

Night

Part of the bathroom

Time to buy a clock

The view from our room on the 58th floor - wow!!