Jiajia took a rare day off work today to spend a bit of time with me after my 3½ months away. Although she owns her fashion store, she is largely at the beck and call of various "high end" customers, who expect her personal service whether it's 7am or 11pm! She even turned off her phone for a while - unheard of! We explored a new shopping complex downtown which hosts shops from all the top western brands, various restaurants, underground parking and an IMAX cinema (currently showing "Avatar", or "Ava? Ta!" as I call it now). We also sampled an ice-cream from the new, first and only "Dairy Queen" in Kunming. ("Dairy Queen" are a massive franchise in the US, now appearing in Yunnan). The photo shows Ava pointing to the queue!
Afternoon shopping in the new supermarket was fun as one of Jiajia's customers had given her a promotional card worth 1000RMB (£100) if used by the end of the week. So we did our version of "Supermarket Sweep", grabbing anything that took our fancy, knowing it was all paid for!
In the evening we drove down to DianChi Lake for a walk along the promenade in the sunset. It would have been quite romantic were it not for the defecating dogs and dive-bombing seagulls [see photo]! Then off to a barbecue restaurant to end a nice, relaxing day.
In the evening we drove down to DianChi Lake for a walk along the promenade in the sunset. It would have been quite romantic were it not for the defecating dogs and dive-bombing seagulls [see photo]! Then off to a barbecue restaurant to end a nice, relaxing day.
