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Lost Heaven

emily — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:43 +0000

Lost Heaven is a well-known restaurant that serves food from the Yunnan province. We’d never been so I suggested we go there.

We had a bottle of wine and some drinks at the bar on the top floor. There was a nice roof top bar that would be amazing in the summer. (We all are wearing the new glasses we’d gotten that day.)

Hanna mentioned something about singing, and we decided to go to karaoke around 2 AM. Really, it is a totally Chinese cultural experience! Here they are rocking out to Queen.

The Captain’s Bar

emily — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:28:00 +0000

After viewing the SWFC, we decided to check out some live jazz at the House of Blues and Jazz. After a couple drinks, we went to the Captain’s Bar, conveniently located right across the street. It’s the top floor of the Captain’s Hostel and has the Bund view without pretentious drink prices.

Marion and George are Couch Surfers who stayed with us 4 days. They’re from the Netherlands, and George was studying business Chinese in Beijing.

The view is quite nice when the lights are still on. Behind us is the infamous view of Pudong across the Huangpu River.

37 Fuzhou Lu, near Sichuan Zhong Lu
福州路37号，近四川中路

KTV in Nanxiang

emily — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:08:00 +0000

Singing, playing Liar’s Dice and drinking. Good times.

Local Dive Bar

emily — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:57:00 +0000

After the concert, we went to check out a little bar near Da Marco. It’s just through an alley from our apartment. It’s small, dark, and wasn’t busy. Perfect.

Dan’s birthday

emily — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:18:00 +0000

Dan turned a year older on the 21st, so a group of friends went to dinner at DeMarco and then to People 6 to celebrate.

Probably the scariest photo of Dan ever…. BTW, he’s not 18. But perhaps he wishes he were.

What is a birthday without shots? The bar had a huge selection of bottles… unfortunately, they were all empty bottles for show! It took Mark over 30 minutes to come back with a shot of something, which turned out to be tequila. Someone decided Wendy needed to learn the American college party way of shooting tequila.

It started pouring rain. Steam was rising from the lights in the bamboo. Try clicking on the photo to see a little detail. It looked cool.

Praia Avenue, Macau

emily — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:38:00 +0000

Having a Bloody Mary at the Old Taipa Tavern. It was warm in the sun… perfect for a Saturday afternoon.

Thursday in Macau

emily — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:32:00 +0000

A shrine by Adam’s apartment.

A cute little cupcake shop – with yummy cupcakes. We’re wondering how such a specialty shop can stay in business.

Jon doing fancy fingerwork playing Liar’s Dice.

Adam & Angela at the Irish Bar

The View

emily — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:19:00 +0000

The View is the VIP lounge at the Sands Casino. Adam got a VIP card from a client, so we went there to hang out one night.

I had a strawberry margarita with chocolate. Yum.

We played Liar’s Dice most of the night.

November 12 – Whiskey Creek Grill

emily — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:10:00 +0000

A while back, the SD Cattlemen’s Association was invited to a new restaurant in Mitchell, SD called Whiskey Creek Grill to “brand” their bar. That’s right, everyone brought in their branding iron and left their mark on the bar.

The “John Reisch” brand. It’s made of a lazy R and rocking J. (correct me if I am wrong, mom!)

After we get the crops in, everyone who helped gets invited to a Harvest Party. We had this year’s party at Whiskey Creek.

Tim explains how he made his wedding ring out of a quarter. (yes, made, as in hammered a lot to get it in the perfect shape.) He made his wife’s out of a nickel from her birth year!

Emily & mom making S’mores.

Saturday Night

emily — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:03:00 +0000

On Saturday, we fit in a trip to the Bund, the grocery store, the Propaganda Poster Museum (which is walking distance from our apartment), a walk through a bit of the French Concession, the Pearl Market, lunch at Bukharra (an Indian restaurant), a Dutch movie our friend Inge brought over, a nap, a quick stroll on Nanjing Lu, a drink at 789 Nanjing Lu, and a couple beers at the Captain’s Bar. It was a busy day. (These are all Esther’s photos.)

I like this photo of us! I feel like we are on a movie set or something.

I’ve wanted to go to the Captain’s Bar for a while now, and it was on Esther’s to-do list because a co-worker had told her about it. It’s on the top of a hostel and the cheapest bar with a Bund view. Granted, the cheapest with a Bund view is still expensive! A draft Chinese beer was 45 RMB. We buy the bottled beer at the convenience store next to our house for about 4 RMB.

Anyway, we had a really good time talking about all of our memories (or lack thereof) from Sweden and discussed who we’d kept in touch with and who was doing what.