a fresh february weekend

This weekend we headed to IKEA to get some homey- goods: Rug for the living room, and these awesome bed trays for 39 rmb! ($5.70 usd) They are much bigger than laptop stands, fold up, and have cup and pen holders. This is great since it'll have space for my tablet/mouse/snack on the side.


And no, I did not eat all those meatballs by myself. Timon helped. He was surprised there were no vegetables on my plate.... The Ikea in Shanghai has an upper floor restaurant that stretches the entire length of the building, so there's a narrow seating area like a mile from the cafeteria in a nook where most of the custormers are just hanging out, playing board games, reading, or gazing out the panoramic window.



One day outside our apartment complex we saw a pink car. Correction- a pink Cadillac. "Who would EVER want their Cadillac to be pink??" Timon said. We agreed it was probably a Mary Kay or Avon car or really rich Chinese person. (The only other pink car we've seen here was a bubblegum pink mini van, for English first)

So on our way to Ikea, (Yi ja = Righteous Home) we saw a whole lot of pink cars. They were having some Mary Kay event at the indoor stadium.

Then it rained a lot, and there was 50 people in line for cab sat Ikea, so I said, "Lets muscle it on the qing wei" (Above ground metro- could you call it a superway? So we picked up either end of our rolled up rug and bags of pans, cassarole dishes, and bed trays, and trotted off into the sunset. Getting it up the stairs was a bit tricky, it was really wet out, and the rug (2 x 1.5 meters) was in a plastic bag and slippery. And it was cold. My hand was frozen! We made it home wet and full of excitement!!