10/21: Shopping!

Today I met up with Adeline to start our day of shopping. I finally stopped at the shaobing yotiao place to try it for my mom. In the first part of the day we had to do some business...I wanted to check out some hotels for Juan and Adeline needed to go to the travel agency for her parents' trip here. I was happy we actually made it to all the places in good time...thanks to me meticulously writing the walking directions (though I still almost went the wrong way a few times). In a search of salad for Adeline, we ate lunch at Dante's Coffee and she was so happy (4months without salad). Then we headed to Wufenpu Shopping District- recommended by Joanne (international student counselor type) and it ended up being a major downer. There were about a million shops full of people with no space. Everything we liked was expensive, and we ended up getting nothing. I almost bought a pair of earrings from Korea that were pretty but felt cheap and where $290 (~$8). I'm used to $1.74 earrings at Target so...couldn't do it. Then we finally gave up and went to Raohe Night Market. We were both pretty dejected cuz we had such a positive out look for our day. along the way we stopped at some places and all at once we each had new purses (hers for $390, mine for $150!) so we were both way happy and ready to shop again. Raohe was pretty awesome, lots of clothes. We had some fried dumplings that were realllly good. I bought a pair of boots for only $350 (down from $390, so $10US) and then Adeline got pumps and then boots and then we both got jeans. The jeans place was awesome! They give you a personal shopper who helps you pick jeans and then they tailor the pants too! pretty sweet. we went to the train station and found out we missed the last Train to Neili so we'd have to stop at Taoyuan and then taxi over. but, we were able to take the sweet high speed rail, which means comfy seats! not standing for 40min. The taxi ride home was crazy, running every red light and going real fast, but we made it so its all good!