Today AF and I worked out in the gym now that I have running sneakers I purchased from Ya Show Market yesterday for 150 RMB. I am sure I got ripped off but she started out at 650 RMB. She acted so insulted when I offered 100 RMB. She did not like me hitting the first digit on the calculator with a 1. I kept trying to walk away but she kept at it and we finally settled on 150 ($18.75). She acted like I really hurt her, huh.
AF and I went shopping for some clothes for her. We first went to a department store that she remembered the last time being here. The only problem is that she could not remember the name of the store. I contacted QL via Blackberry to get the name. It turns out this is the same place that BF received some hairstyling from a Korean stylist, based on recommendation from WW. We asked the concierge to write the Chinese name of the store (Pacific Dept Store) on an Embassy House business card so the taxi driver knew where we wanted to go.
We were not successful looking for clothes for AF at Pacific. We then walked to Ya Show markets, similar to Silk Street Market where you need to bargain and get harassed by the shop keepers. Nothing really suited her there either. Unfortunately, batteries ran out on the camera so no pictures with the adventure.
It is another one of those hazy Beijing days with limited visibility. It is extremely humid outside. We decided to go back to the apartment for rest and lunch.
It is now 13:30 and AF wants to stay home. I still feel like getting out and discovering places. I decided to get in a taxi headed for Wanfujing which is a big shopping area near Oriental Plaza and T'iananmen Square. There are a number of shopping malls there (Sun Dong An Plaza, Wanfujing Dept Store, and Oriental Plaza Shopping Mall). 
AF and I planned to go to the Canadian Embassy for mass at 5:30. The embassy is only 10 minute walk from the apartment. When we got there, we talked to the Chinese guard in front of the embassy and he said there has not been mass there in 2-3 years. Shucks.... would have been nice to walk to church each week. AF and I walked back. She wanted to stay in for dinner.
I called RW a co-worker who just got into town yesterday to see if he wanted to go out to dinner. We arranged to meet out on the street since his apartment is just a block west of Embassy House. We walked to a restaurant that I had scouted in Sanlitun area and was quoted as best Thai restaurant in Beijing in "That's Beijing Magazine," an English monthly magazine. The restaurant is called "Serve the People". RW said this was the name of an old Mao doctrine. The bottom of the menu was even signed in his hand-writing/calligraphy which is supposedly very good as he studied it for some time.
It was too humid to eat outside on the street, so we went in. Food was very good and a little spicy. We had Pad Thai noodles, Pork Satay, a spicy cooked seafood dish in coconut curry, oxtail, a prawn seafood salad and of course some Tsing Tao beer.
We then walked down to the Sanlitun Bar street. This is a very interesting bas scene street. The street is comprised of one bar next to another the whole length of the street. So the routine begins with a street hawker trying to get you to go into their bar because they have the BEST happy hour. Seems like happy hour is always advertised no matter what time of the day!!! In the bar, there is always a guy playing a keyboard and two ladies singing Karoake type songs. You always see groups of people with a whole bottle of some strong liquor like vodka or whiskey and playing dice drinking games. We left before the next routine which is a belly dancer. This routine is repeated again and is the same at all the bars.
Time for bed.
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