Chapter 2: Shanghai

The Pudong Airport was huge. Whichever side you look you would get a mirror- in-front- of- the- mirror look and feel and you get this feeling everywhere: malls, super market, at crossroads, gardens, everywhere! We filled up some forms and then got our faces matched with the ones in our passports, got the luggage and went to Shanghai Station by Maglev. The maglev, being the fastest train took us to the aforementioned station in 15 min. From there, we took another train to Songhong station and reached there in 30 min. A taxi was waiting for us (thanks to Tony) and at that time the mothers (mine and N’s) called up. They were told that we had reached safely.

We got down the taxi at 11: 30 pm. N was paying the taxi driver and I was shivering with cold. I was later told that it was 2 degree Celsius. The building did not have an elevator and we had 44 kg of luggage with us to be carried all the way to the 5th floor. My heart was over-flowing sympathy for my husband for doing the Herculean task! The house was beautiful with wooden flooring and furniture. We were very hungry and ate soup and maggi in an extremely big vessel.