I spoil myself

After two days mostly offline, I have recognised that the Internet has officially packed up. So here I am in an internet cafe, keeping you all in my loop. It is quite expensive, so I may not be able to update as much as I liked. I want to post a lot of photos, but the speed of the, net over here makes that difficult. I will persevere!

In the winter Beijing is a hoary kind of cold. At the Summer Palace that worked to our advantage because we didn't overheat walking up and down all the stairs and the lake was frozen and beautiful. But damn if I'm not sick and tired of putting gloves, hats, scarves and jackets on and then having to strip out of them whenever we go inside!
While I'm on the topic of clothes... I spoiled myself today. We went to this shopping mall and it was okay, mostly girly stuff like bags and shoes. I wasn't that impressed.Until we realised that two thirds of the place was underground! We had only scratched the surface (and I mean that more literally than usual) with what we had thought was the whole mall.
Downstairs was the goods. I saw a lot of cool stuff. Chinese new year is my friend (and yours) because most major stores seem to be having half-price sales in honour of the occasion. So although the malls are way more expensive than the markets you can still get a good deal. I bought a jersey and some pants. They are both black, so I look like a ninja right now. I better invest in some colour, especially as most of Beijing is grey.