I'm sorry for being gross here, but when they said we were going shopping for fish, I wasn't sure if we were going shopping for pets or for supper. When we pulled up to an aquarium mall, I was closer, but not completely certain. But it turns out that Ruby and Xiao Liu were in the market for a home aquarium and it was fun to tag along for this adventure. This was like 20 or more little aquarium stores in one outdoor shopping complex that was covered by an awning of some sorts. There is a much bigger emphasis on Goldfish in china, but I think they ended up going for a natural tropical aquarium. (Weird question, do you buy heaters for tropical tanks when you're in the tropics?) The most interesting part was when Vicky advised me to go away from them during the negotiations - it appears that the presence of a Laowai can inflate the prices a fair bit.
After the shopping excursion, we stopped by McDonalds - Vicky was hungry as she did much more talking than eating during the Din Sum breakfast. We took that back to her apartment where we played our own game of Mahjong (with the boys playing poker upstairs with Queenie).
From there we headed back out to dinner (after a quick stop by Vicky's favorite tea house) where we repeated the morning's whole-family dinner. I found myself staring face to face (literally) with a chicken dinner - you never know what you might see on a dinner plate around here.
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