Shanghai - Day 12

I'm sorry to say that I went shopping again today. It does seem that it's all we've donen, but the shopping here is fantasic...and addictive! I went to a market place with Giselle near the Jing An Temple. It was all the same stuff we can get at home at Paddy's Market...funny about that! But ti was great fun and I got the last few things on my list like sandals for John's little girls, Mary and Sarah, to wear for the wedding. We can home and started to get things packed up ready for our move to Beijing, then in the evening headed nout for another performance at JZ Jazz Club. First we went to dinner up the road from the club. A morrocan restaurant called Marakesh. The food was great. North African food to give our tastebuds a break from the Chinese food. We also had a bottle of Morrocan red wine. Back at the club we were just playing a short set before the JZ Big Band so we decided to just call tunes we all knew. When I got on stage, I felt really strange. Not drunk. Not stoned. Just really spacey. I couldn't concentrate on what I was singing and, in my mind, sang some really awful stuff! Just not together at all. At the end of the set I told Tim that I felt strange and he said he felt the same. Don't know if we were just over tired, or if it was the wine...or maybe the cous cous!!! It was a bizarre feeling. We sat a watched the JZ big band which is a mix of local muso's and ex-pat musicians from USA. It was a pretty happening band doing very difficult charts by the director and arranger, a guy called Rolf from Germany. A woman in a very short skirt bought us a bottle of champagne and came over with her texan companion to hang. She is a lawyer who studied at the Sydney University. What was interesting is that she didn't cme to our gig there last Tues, she wasn't coming to the concert on Sunday, and she missed most of the short set we did that night. I think she just liked the celebrity factor!