China

Frank doesn’t enjoy shopping as much as Carrie, the girls, and I we went to China without him. We took the KCR train into Shen Zhen and after getting through customs and immigration went straight to a jeans shop. I found two pairs that I really liked, but didn’t get them. I felt horrible for not buying the jeans because their whole store was messy with jeans laying everywhere when we left. We went straight to the forth floor of the mall to Carries seamstress after that, but she was very busy. Catherine and Alex were hungry so we decided to go get lunch and come back later. We took the train and it was only about 10 cents for each of us! At the restaurant we got tons of food! Probably enough for eight people and it cost us about eleven dollars U.S.! The food was really good and we got a variety or different things to try.

Alex and Catherine really wanted to go to this huge book store afterwards. The streets of china, even in a newer city, were packed and the air polluted! There were tons of traffic and crazy drivers honking horns. In the book store, the elevators would speed up when you stepped on them! When everyone was finished at the book store, we went back to the seamstress and hung out there until seven or eight o’clock. The sisters working there were IN LOVE with Alex and Catherine! I ordered to dresses but they overcharged me and so I changed my mind. The girls and Carrie got measured and picked out materials for the things they wanted. After we finished at the seamstress Alex spotted a place that sold calligraphy materials and begged Carrie to get them for her. She was soo excited and said she had been looking for them for a really long time.

The day had me pretty worn out and I think we were all just about ready to leave. But we spotted a place selling tea and so we stopped for a little while to try some different kinds. I got a bunch for my mom and Carrie got some, after discovering that the girls loved it. By the end of the day all I wanted to do was scream at all of the people trying to sell me things. At the same time I wanted to buy everything they offered me because I felt so bad for ignoring them! When you walk buy a shop everyone woring shouts the exact same thing “hey missy you want to buy a hand bag? What you want? Dvds? Come with me pretty ladies.” They will just not give up so you have to ignore all of them or they will just follow you. I would hate it if I had to do that all day and people just walked by like I didn’t exists.