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Rollin’

Today started off fun. We eventually went for our second dose of the fake market. I was on a mission to get a fake Rolex watch as I didn’t have a watch with me on the trip. It was a lot of fun talking these guys down from 1350Y down to less than 100Y (about 15 bucks Canadian.) Amy and Jen made many more purchases than I did, but that shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of you. I just don’t think I could leave china without classically flouting IP in some way or another. A quick Google search tells me that legit versions of this watch are going for 4 to 22 thousand USD.

It was our last night in Shanghai, Jen and I fly to Bangkok tomorrow, Amy will follow a day later. We went to the Oriental Perl Tower or something… the third highest tower in the world next to the CN and whatever was recently built to best it. The view was quite nice and it was nice to see Shanghai at night like that before we left.

Now we are packing up at the apartment, eating all of Amy’s leftover food before taking off tomorrow.

Oh, and how could I forget: Amy bought me a tasty treat at the Haggen Dazs store. It was called “Emotion in Coffee” and it was fan-freaking-tastic.

Keep in mind, we are heading away from guaranteed wifi now. I will do my best to blog when I have a connection, but I don’t know what that will be like from here on out.

Thanks Everyone

I just want to say thanks to everyone who is commenting. While I am not responding directly to them, I read them all and it makes me feel like writing this blog is actually a worth while way of communicating my travels to all of you back home. My Chinese is very basic… thank you, hello, one, i don’t understand, no, i don’t want, essentially all you need to get you into tourist attractions, order food, other simple pleasures. Thanks for the Canuck scores dad, and good luck with the fireworks Mom.

Last night we went out to dinner at a Japanese place of all places, and oh my god the food was amazing. It was all you can eat Teppinyaki, as well as all you can drink. I had soo much, but it was really just the right amount. Today we checked out the “tailor market” where they custom make your clothes for you, then we went to the “fake” market (aka the cheap market) where they sell knock-off everything. Some of it is pretty tempting, but i didn’t bite on anything there. After we went and got a blind massage, where you get a massage by a blind person. I loved it of course… a full hour for like 7 or so dollars.

Plans are dinner tonight, don’t really know where, but it will probably be yummy, and most likely a decent adventure again.

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