dec17th
asked at our hotel reception for directions to a mall so that we could buy some winter clothes. they gave us very funny looks but told us the mall was two blocks away but that dennys was only up the road. so off we set and arrived at denny before we got too cold. robin ordered 3 sides of bacon (12 rashers) cause he has missed having bacon soooo much and i am very please to say he ate them all as well as his toast and milk.

well there were no taxis so we put on what we had and sarted our walk. we were a bit cold but we had warmed up at dennys so we thought lets go for it. well we walked quite fast to keep warm but it started getting very cold very quickly. so i jogged with robin leaving jim behind. was quite worried about the cold then saw the shopping centre so robin and i ran, to keep warm and get there. we had forgotten the blocks are soooo big here. by the time robin and i got into the centers 1st shop safeways our fingers and faces were tingleing and it was quite painful as they atarted warming up.

While we waiting warming up we started to worry about jim and i was just going out to look for him when i saw him across the car park so i went back into the warm.

We went into that shopping centre about 9.30am and didnot come out again till about 3.30pm. never shopped so long, the boys were really fed up but it was mostly their shopping. robin looked really cute in his suit for the wedding. Caught up with our fried Sang (from tour) in the evening, apparently he phoned the hotel this morning to offer us a lift to the mall and the reception staff had told him the mad english had gone shopping......, Sang took us to a chinese restaurent the siver dragon, lovely food and great to see him again, good company.

Dec 18th