Day 7 - Shanghai

Our day started with shopping. Again!!!! We went to the Dongjiadu Cloth Market. Lots of tailors and reams of fabric. We all placed orders for things to be made and in 2 hours had made a few businesses very happy. We had to race back to the hotel to get dressed up for our press conference. The concert at the Oriental Arts Centre is with the Shanghai Symphony Big Band. As exciting as that sounds for us, the concept of big band swing is not huge here, so we are working hard to increase ticket sales. It's a 2000 seat theatre, so we may be swinging for our own pleasure!!! We played 3 songs for the press and then had a Q&A session. The concert is being promoted around John and I falling in love and having a romantic trip to Shanghai. Many of the questions were about our relationship than music, but we managed to meld both topics quite nicely. Our agent, Michael, planned to take us to a very popular restaurant famous for duck, in particular, Peking Duck. We had a couple fo hours to kill, so Tim and I went in search of a massage which is done in the Jing An Hotel, parent hotel to the Shanghai. The directions we were given were the complete opposite of where we needed to go, so by the time we found it, we were drenched in sweat. We also had no idea what time it was, so we were halfway through our massage when John popped his head in. It was time to go and he'd been looking for us.
The restaurant was packed and again, the food kept on coming. We had lots of different dishes...mostly duck. Duck tongue, duck egg, duck stomach, duck feet, as well as the famous Peking duck....cut in 2 different ways. Despite my massage, my back was giving me grief so we headed home for an early night.