Foodtastic

Today, we went to a very famous restaurant for soup dumplings. The beauty of these dumplings is that somehow they make a steamed dumpling full of meat soup, thus making it very delicious to eat. Of course, we also had shumai, which was also delicious.

Unfortunately, because it has many chains, we thought that the restaurant opened at 9AM when it actually opened at 10AM. This meant that we wandered the streets for a while and my 90 year old grandparents took a walk around the block. While waiting for the restaurant to be opened, we found the chain for 24 hour fitness here. It's called California Fitness and every treadmill has a television. Unfortunately, it's about 15 minutes on the metro for me... and really... the shopping will get me my 6-pack abs, right?

On a semi-related note, when we left the house this morning at 7:30AM, the metro was completely packed. I'm pretty sure that the classes that the students take here to get ahead don't start that early and people usually don't work on Saturdays here. My dad claims that the young people are out to date for the entire day. What the heck do you do as a "date" the entire day? Does it really have to start at 7:30AM? I don't know... if I wanted to start a day early, I'm not sure that 7AM on a Saturday morning is the way to go.

Anyway, after lunch, we went to do our favorite activity here: wandering around the department stores. While shopping, I found out that the lingerie here is not as exciting as Kuwait. No sexy pirate outfits Sue, but there are sexy schoolgirl outfits... Not sure which one is better but both equally scary.

Hope everyone is well!