Everlasting Spa

Everlasting Spa is where I go to get my nails done, sometimes I get a pedicure and sometimes a foot massage, depends on my schedule and how I am feeling. It takes me about 7 minutes to walk from the apartment and I love the building as it is an old home of a Shanghai military officer from the 1930's.

Everlasting Spa has about 6 locations in Shanghai, but this is the only one located in an old home, it's very cozy. The other locations I am told are located in shopping malls.

Across the street is Grace Church which I was told has an English service. Tony and I went today, and the English service is actually a translation of the service. The foreigners wear a small headset with a receiver attached, just like in the UN, and there is a Chinese lady on the other end translating what the preacher is saying. It was quite difficult to understand. The church was fully loaded with Chinese, many older Chinese. They sung hymns in Chinese and it was very beautiful. The songs were the translations of all our favorite hymns we sing in church. We left after and hour although the service was still going strong.

We plan on going to a different church next Sunday, which we believe the service is in English, we shall see. That Church, which has a Chinese name is near Tony's office. Here a picture of it.

I took a tour of it last week so I am quite familiar with the building now.
There was a young lady taking pictures of/for her wedding, not of the actual wedding. You see in China they take the pictures in advance of the wedding celebration.

The building is 200 years old and was used as a grain storage facility from 1940 - 1970 or so. The windows were all destroyed by the army in 1940 and the spires burned down. It has had a total face lift and they are slowly working on putting in stain glass windows to replace the clear glass that is currently in place. Although the windows will have a Chinese flair to them. The Bishop who is not affiliated with Rome, but affiliated with the government, had made the decision not to replace the windows in the traditional European style. The Bishop is 93 years old and spent 26 years in prison during the cultural revolution. He of course bends to the desire of the government. There are 7 recognized religions in Shanghai, one of them being Catholicism.