Today we were lucky enough to enjoy fairly clear, blue skies so after work Evan, James, Zach and I headed over to the Shanghai World Financial Tower to go to the 100th floor observation deck. We had been waiting for the perfect clear day all summer to go to the top and it looked like we weren’t going to get much better than this one. So we headed over to the base of the SWFC to buy our tickets (150 quai each which was a little ridiculous, but we were determined to get to the top of that building) and then were shown into this very creepy basement room with some kind of display in Chinese about the building. If you can imagine a ride at Disneyland mixed with some kind of space age spaceship loading procedure mixed with some kind of Tim Burton interpretation of Alice in Wonderland you would have a good idea of what this display was like. Very strange.
The elevator went pretty fast up to the 97th floor. You get off here and look at the view from this floor which is pretty cool. I mean, 97 floors is still really really high. Then you get in line to go up an escalator one floor to another elevator which takes you up the last two floors to floor 100 (is anyone questioning the efficiency of this method right now? I know I am). We got to the 100th floor right as the sun was setting which was great timing because we still had some daylight time but then we also got to see the lights go on which was probably cooler. It really is a great view from up there even if it made me a little dizzy being so high. I really hate the glass panels in the floor that let you see just how high you are. I think those are just unnecessary, but I guess some people enjoy them. Anyways, I wouldn’t necessarily need to go up again, but it was a good thing to do once and sort of a dream come true for a certain coworker who literally loves this building.
After SWFC, we took Zach to our favorite noodle place, browsed our favorite DVD shop, and then grabbed ice cream bars after so he has officially been welcomed to the office. All in all it was a very fun night.
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