Saturday in Shenzhen

September 12, 2009

Isabel successfully posted to her blog today about the trip to the Safari Park. She'll likely add pictures tomorrow, but it is worth reading today. She requests that you please start with Shenzhen Safari Park: Part One then move to Part Two.

We just got back from the Dongmen Market. It matched our low price expectations much better than last week's venture. Sofia got a t-shirt with Pleasant Goat on it for $2.00. Pleasant Goat, Beautiful Goat, and a bunch of other goats try to outwit Big, Big Wolf in a popular Chinese cartoon series. Isabel got a tiered peasant skirt for $3.50. At one store, the girls got six items -- three shirts and three pants/culottes -- for $30 or about $5.00 each. I was still too broad in the shoulders for the items I tried on. Jacek bought a couple of magic boxes and that was it. Stirling searched for baseball caps but didn't find anything.

We invited our neighbors to go with us. Mei, the wife, did. She speaks quite good English. I learned that both she and her husband are from Hubei Province. They graduated from the same school and both teach at the Polytecnic University. She teaches electronics, but laughed when Stirling asked if she was an engineer. We ate really, really bad, bad, very bad Chinese food from a street vendor. She went to McDonalds.