Shop until you dropppppppp

Jo and I met for breakfast at 9.30 and the breakfasts are amazing, it is a mix of the usual you would find at all hotels across Australia as well as traditional Chinese breakfasts, which include smoked salmon salad, noodles and chicken and soup.  I had a smoked salmon salad and it was wonderful, its really lovely to have such fresh and usual food first thing in the morning.

We then headed out to the huge shopping complex next to the hotel, and the whole bottom floor is just shoes, and I mean every type of shoe you can imagine and then some, I found about 794 that I liked however as I am a size 9 I found 2 pair that actually fit me.  This as you can imagine almost sent me into a deep depression, however I am informed that Shanghai have women with much larger feet so I am crossing my fingers that I find some pretties there.

I got myself a pair of earrings that cost $2 and I love them!  I got my kids a pair of chop sticks each for $1, as we eat allot of noodles and rice at home and they are always interested in John and I eating with the sticks so now they have their own.

There were many other levels of home wares, clothing, gadgets and such however the shoes had made me quiet sad, its hard to look at so many beautiful shoes and not be able to fit in them, I am still trying to come to terms with this.  I am contemplating trying the traditional Chinese foot bandages to see if I can shrink my feet to fit into their ridiculously small shoes.  And if you think I am kidding you clearly do not know me.