First stop....the flower market.... 
Beautiful Orchids
One side of the building is flowers....the other side is plants. You can buy any plant, any size and have it put into a container of your choice. AND they deliver.....most likely on the back of a bicycle. I wish I could keep a plant alive longer than a few days.....hhhhmmmmm I wonder how Xiao Zhang is with plants????
Outside garden decorations....there might be a few of these in our shipping container when we leave China 
Water fountains everywhere!!!
This is the cleanest wet market I have been to in Shanghai. AND it is in Pudong....we don't even have to cross the river. They call this a "wet market" because they do not have air conditioning so in the summer they spray everything with water to keep it fresh.
This is ........ stuff 
This is stinky tofu.....when you smell this cooking on the street it is really really disgusting!!
Eggs anyone???
Lots of greens that I can not identify.....The standard answer for "What do you do with this?" is......"Stir fry it with garlic".
These are soooo pretty.
More eggs? The small ones in the front are quail eggs.
More beautiful veggies
Notice the pig feet in the front? The butcher is shaving one of them....I guess you really don't want your pig feet to be hairy.
Fish everywhere.....Is a squid considered a fish? Hmmmm.....
More fish
How about some fish heads? As I walked past this vendor the shop keeper poked the fish head and it moved... I said AAAHHHHHH!!!!.....and he laughed really hard. 
This is the fish head guy....He wanted me to take his picture. Just as I was taking the picture the fish he was holding flipped out of his hand and splashed back into the tank. Water went everywhere including all over me.....we laughed again and I showed him the picture which made him laugh even more. This was a very fun "fish" experience.
After the wet market we went to a small candle factory. It is somewhere towards the Pudong airport.
This was my "picture of the day". This is outside the factory door. These are thermoses. The factory workers fill them up and take them home. Most of them do not have hot water (some have no running water) in their homes.
Large wax heaters
Candle molds on the edges....water in the middle for cooling the molds.
Candle molds...water troth at the top of the photo 
Candles in progress
Everything in this factory is hand made. They use this drill to put holes in the top of the candles so they can had small votives.
The tea pot contains hot wax....the burner in the back is used to heat the candle so they can add Asian hardware. The hardware sticks to the melted wax.
Candle with metal hardware added. These are really beautiful and made very well.
More candles
More candles 
Oops!!! I think someone had a "melt down"!
The show room was a very different environment than the factory. The factory has no heat or air conditioning.... yikes!!!
I love these!!!!
I also like the very "funky" shapes.
After the tour I came home and took a nap.....it seemed like a perfectly logical thing to do on a rainy day!!
Abi's school is having spirit week so she does not have to wear her uniform all week. Today was "fashion disaster day". She was definitely a disaster. I missed getting a picture....darn!!!
After Tim's early morning call he went to the golf course for a "work" meeting. He was a "happy camper" when he got home this evening.
Well....that's another day in Shanghai.
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