After the fun of the Philippines we returned back to our regular schedules of work, school, homework, after-school activities and grocery shopping (for me).
I decided to try out Sam's Club. This is an American-owned store, which is similar to Costco.
I thought I had hit the jackpot when I came across my first sighting of Weis' bars in China. However, at approx $15AUD per box I couldn't justify purchasing my beloved mango Weis' bars. I did however buy some Canadian ice-cream which was on sale and was pretty good.
Sam's Club felt and looked so much like the Costco experience we are used to in Australia. However, there were a few noticeable differences.
Looks like Costco, feels like Costco..
..but is an entire aisle of fungus. I guess this is to be expected. The market for Western housewives would be a lot smaller than the market for Chinese shoppers.
I will definitely keep returning to Sam's Club though because they sell this fruit bread which we all love.
We had an unexpected visitor in our garage. The kids and I returned home through the garage one day (the kids had been riding their bikes). We heard meowing! We scoured the garage and eventually found this cat hiding beside our camp chairs. It must have snuck in previously when the door was open. We were able to shoo it out. Poor thing! I wonder how long it spent in our garage. I think at least overnight.
An amazing sky one evening. It's not all grey skies here :) Actually, around September/October there were quite a lot of blue skies.
A cool plant I picked up at a flower market. I like going to the flower markets. There are lots of different flower markets. The last one I went to had a section for fresh potted plants, another section for cut flowers, another for fake plants, a section for pets and then another for art and framing (the last being kind of random I guess). It's a good place to practise Mandarin.
The girls at Gongqing Forest Park. Some of the parks in Shanghai are huge. This one had playgrounds, roller coasters, a merry-go-round, bumper cars, a massive lake etc etc. You have to pay to get in. Actually, most parks seem to be like this. They are surrounded by a large wall and you cannot enter without first buying a ticket.
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