It's Friday and my dreams of scoring some Nike or Converse sneakers today have been rudely quashed. More than 2,000 pairs of counterfeit athletic shoes were confiscated at a garment market yesterday on Qipu Road. The shoes I wanted sold for about $4.00 per pair. I mean how nasty is that. Now I have to go looking for another fake market.
Tomorrow though is no more fakes. We do some serious shopping exploration with Francine Martin, a professional shopper and head of East of the Sun which will be fun and hopefully informative and time saving for when our friends and relatives come to visit and want to do some real shopping in Asia.
That's it for this Friday morning - tonight it's dinner with our new neighbours Chris & Susan at Mi Thai, a great restaurant in the French Concession and we head back to Canada for our final packing and moving on Sunday. We say au revoir to Montreal on March 30. We will miss the city and our condo but hopefully the bonds we've made with friends will stay strong and solid during the next few years.
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