Guangzhou 14 June

DSCN6773  Trying to find the Decathalon store DSCN6775  Navigating with Austin's help at a distance DSCN6776  This looked more like Neiman-Marcus than REI! DSCN6785  Finally we got there: the Gaungzhou equivalent of REI, almost!
DSCN6777  We all went to our own section. DSCN6778  Christine's section was running/trail shoes. DSCN6779  There was quite a selection. DSCN6780  One has to try them on, see how they feel.
DSCN6782  This could be the pair! (It was!) DSCN6783  I spent a lot of time in the fitting rooms DSCN6788  trying on clothes marked XXL DSCN6786  Nikki chilled (really!) in the court shoe area.
DSCN6789  We stocked up!! All present and future grandchildren will have backpacks! 20160614 171447  The very light zip off pants I got to replace some heavy cotton pants purchased a decade ago in Prague needed to be hemmed. 20160614 171507  So Nikki took me to the campus tailor 20160614 171743  He was a very nice man who shortened the pants for $1.25. So glad I got that done there!
20160614 173046  Then Nikki took me to the campus stores, filled with nonsensical stuff printed on sensible items. 20160614 173115  "Good Night- the story begins"? What does that mean? 20160614 173430  is that like "I'm with Stupid-->" 20160614 173515  Imagine finding this! Zytglogge in Bern!! Don't forget to "art your time"!
20160614 175907  Nikki bought her mom some blank notebooks. 20160614 175911  Seldom have I seen her so happy! 20160614 175913  Omigod! Blank pages! 20160614 185616  Then we went to dinner at one of N&A's favorite restaurants (a Hunan chain?)
20160614 185635  Nikki knows! 20160614 185750  It was quiet, which was nice, and it was cool! 20160614 191020  We had a variety of very different dishes 20160614 191034  and enjoyed them all, especially the dessert "doughnut"!
20160614 195915  Nikki waiting with us at the bus station from whence we will head to the airport 20160614 195954  It was so much fun visiting our Nikki and her Austin 20160614 195955  I think she liked it too! 20160614 195959
20160615 090758  On the plane back to Europe, an article about the Tea Horse Road with a photo purportedly from Shaxi! 20160615 090840  For the Anglophones among you 20160615 091002  Yet more places to go: Shangri-La!