Feel more care ness

Last night Alex and I went to the Jin Mao tower, which is an 87-story building in the fast-growing Pudong district. Among the architectural marvels of this area, there is a skyscraper going up that appears to be 30 stories taller than Jin Mao. Inside Jin Mao tower, you can see all the way from the 85th floor down to the Hyatt lobby on the 54th floor. Alex aptly describes this view as similar to the scene in Star Wars when Luke is fighting Vader. After taking in the dizzying lobby view, we headed up to the bar on the top floor and had some very expensive drinks, but the view was worth it.

One hilarious thing about China is the bizarre English translations everywhere. Our Shanghai hotel slogan is something like, “Experience more comfortable, feel more care ness.” Incidentally I have not been feeling much care ness lately with that hotel. They initially put us in this nice big room, bigger than a standard American hotel. But then they said the internet didn’t work in that room and put us in a standard room. But the internet didn’t work there either. They said the next day they would find us a room with internet. When we returned on that next day, they had put us in a tiny room (the wall is about 2 feet from the end of the bed), but guess what? Still no internet. Maybe they’ll get it right tonight. Or maybe it is a funny joke they are playing on us and tonight we’ll be in a closet with no internet.