This is what we came for, fashion week. There are signs all over the city for this. Girls should be pretty busy for the next week. I will be alone 🙁
Read MoreKaatje had a photo shoot today so Kaelyn and I had a slow morning and a day of exploring. I found a new mall about 5 blocks away called IAPM. On the walk, I found a gas station (there aren’t many around here) and noticed the price per litre, $1.42CAD When we arrived at the mall, it’s certainly the fanciest one we’ve seen yet. 2 level apple store....
Read MoreKaatje had a catalog shoot, so Kaelyn and I had the day together. Time to do a little shopping and lets face it, Walmart means lower priced goods, and we needed to pickup some stuff shampoo for the girls cereal and related breakfast items (going to try scrambled eggs sandwiches in the apartment) I wanted to get them a battery pack to charge their phone for those...
Read MoreKaatje had an early casting so when she was done, we decided to zip down to Yu Gardens to give her a quick walk through. It was still insanely busy so we didn’t stay long or shop, but let her creative mind see the amazing buildings. We will go a day they are both less busy and actually go in the gardens. We did note this time there was 1 McDonald’s, 2...
Read MoreOur train back left later in the morning (on purpose, I wanted to get more sleep). We were up at 7am and went for breakfast. Originally I had thought maybe we would walk to the station (it’s not too far, a couple of blocks and over a bridge) but opted to have the hotel call a taxi. In the end it was the right choice since there was no way we could have seen to...
Read MoreThe final stop of the day was to the Summer Palace, about a 30 minute drive away. It was very busy here and were left to roam for 1hr. We had the option to take the metro (subway) home and stay as long as we wanted, but I wasn’t comfortable trying to navigate that, so we walked around in the time we had. You could have spent the whole day there, especially...
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