Day 1 in China: Shanghai

My mom and I stayed in Shanghai for a night before a transfer flight. Her cousins and aunts live there in a bit more countryside area I think? Or at least not super in the heart of this city as they have a house instead of at apartment and have land for garden. I don't know what the relationship titles are for each relative 🙀 

Anyway, my mom's older cousin picked us up from our hotel and we visited their house and my grandfather's old house, which has collapsed. There were quite a few cats and dogs!

We're off!

 After the fastest packing of my life (I usually take about two weeks) in one night, I headed to the airport with my mom bright and early!

Since this is a belated post, I'll tell you right now: I only have three or four outfits for the 16- day trip haha!!! And not everything coordinates quite as well as I'd like!  But I'm making it work. Just expect a lot of repeat outfits in the upcoming posts!

The airport had Halloween decorations and also a cute Taiwan setup styled like 60s to 80s era roughly. 

Halloween at Kokorolia!

Happy Halloween!  It's belated now, but I actually celebrate early this year because of going to vacation in China with my mom!

I went to Kokorolia with friends~ Of course I dressed up and got photo!

I've run through my first cushion foundation and bought a darker shade this time, but was in a bit of rush and didn't shake/mix it well enough for the first application so it actually looks paler here!

 

The Highest Room of the Tallest Tower

 The title is a misleading one because we did not actually go to the highest (publicly available) room (observatory) of the tallest tower (Taipei 101) but we got close being one floor below!

There is a Simple Kaffa on the 88th floor so you can reserve seating and get a comparable view of the city!

Typhoon Day with Kotoko and Exo!

 Singaporean streamer friend Kotoko visited.. just in time for a typhoon!! It was actually a typhoon day so some shops closed. 

Taipei wasn't too terribly affected, just loads of rain and a bit of wind. Other parts of Taiwan were more severely affected. 

We met up at Ximending and the little shop we originally wanted to eat at wasn't open so we went to a veg*n restaurant nearby instead. 

I got a vegetarian set meal (pretty sure the patties contain egg)