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During our trip to China, Hong and I had hoped to steal away a few times to go shopping while the in-laws watched the kids. This was not to pass, as the kids ended up too attached to their parents during the vacation to be abandoned. Instead, we opted to take the kids and the in-laws, so the kids could be cared for while always being relatively close to us. Hong search for clothes for work, but couldn’t find much as the Chinese sense of fashion isn’t the same as America’s, and we found most clothes to be overly garish. They were also, much of the time, more expensive than clothes are here, something I may talk about in a future posting.

Emboldened by our shopping trips overseas, and dismayed by the lack of loot brought home, we attempted shopping at the local mall for additional clothes. One observation: you often see parents shopping with a single small child, but almost never with two small children. The same observation applies at restaurants; it’s pretty rare that we see families requesting two high-chairs like we use. Truth be told, our kids are both pretty well behaved in public, at least as much as a 2- and a 1-year old could expected to be. The shopping experience worked out just fine, with Hong browsing for raiment while I prevented Maggie from climbing on the mannequins.

One sidenote: one of the stores was playing Lost and Found by Delerium on the loudspeakers, a song I had downloaded a few months ago and have been listening to. At that moment, I was suddenly “cool”. Four minutes later, the song was over and my cool vanished. It was back to being a suburban dad watching the kids at the mall.