Sunday errands took us to Guan Qian Jie, also known as "Walking Street" in downtown Suzhou. First task was to visit the You Ya Tailor to pick up Joseph and Marco's new custom made suits. Joseph's first communion is coming up in early June and he needs to look good for his first body of Christ - hence the new suit. Marco is tagging along, also getting a new suit though he has no occasion at the moment to need it.
There were a couple of snafus with the custom suits. The first of which was that they forgot to make the pants ! Small detail, but they suggested we return after lunch and they would get the pants made while we were gone. We had lunch at TGI Friday's and returned to the You Ya to find that Joseph's pants were way too big and Marco's pants were way too small. Maybe they mixed up the sizes, but the story will have to continue on another day as we said we would return next Sunday to pick up the reworked pants.
Next stop was the stationery store where Kathleen needed to pick up art supplies for the kids and for the first communion class. The stationery store is a very small, third rate version of a Michael's craft store and a Staples office supply store. And believe it of not, the clerk actually uses an abacus to work out the sales total. You can see Kathleen checking out and Marco getting an abacus lesson from one of the sales clerks.
There were a couple of snafus with the custom suits. The first of which was that they forgot to make the pants ! Small detail, but they suggested we return after lunch and they would get the pants made while we were gone. We had lunch at TGI Friday's and returned to the You Ya to find that Joseph's pants were way too big and Marco's pants were way too small. Maybe they mixed up the sizes, but the story will have to continue on another day as we said we would return next Sunday to pick up the reworked pants.
Next stop was the stationery store where Kathleen needed to pick up art supplies for the kids and for the first communion class. The stationery store is a very small, third rate version of a Michael's craft store and a Staples office supply store. And believe it of not, the clerk actually uses an abacus to work out the sales total. You can see Kathleen checking out and Marco getting an abacus lesson from one of the sales clerks.
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