In search of.....

I got a good night's sleep and had breakfast again at work. I've been eating baozi for breakfast, a dumpling with kind of salisbury steak and gravy baked on the inside. Actually pretty tasty. I also had what was kind of like a gordita bread baked with chives inside, and then a fried egg somehow attached. Also pretty good. At lunch (again at the cafeteria), I had some dumpling soup with some kind of vegetable inside the dumplings - kind of like spinach but not as bitter. I also had a 'Tea Egg', a boiled egg that is boiled in tea instead of plain water. Sounds kind of disgusting, but it was pretty good as well.

After work tonight, I changed my clothes and put on some deoderant. In fact, it was the very end of my deoderant. So, I had a mission. I also needed some new shoestrings and I'm pretty sure that if you walk through Meijer tomorrow, and look at the shoestrings, you'll see that they are probably made in China. So I thought there would be no problem finding some for sale. I asked the concierge if he knew where I could buy some and he said he had no idea except on the street. They just don't command a big enough price to bother with at a store.

So, I was on my way again to the Super Brand Mall. This time I decided to walk the whole way instead of taking a subway. I would pass the Jin Mao tower (one of the tallest buildings in the world) and right next to it the even taller Trade Center building that is under construction. I got a couple of the coolest photos I've taken so far. This one is from the Northwest - the JinMao tower is in the foreground, and the new trade center building is in the background. I'm loving the night scenery mode of this new camera and the little tripod that I bought a couple days ago. Again, double click on the photo to expand it.

If you turn around and face the other direction on the street from this location, you get this view and wonder if perhaps AT&T Cellular has been laying out the city plan!

I rode the subway back to my hotel. Something I need help with is that when I tried to use my corporate credit card tonight, they asked for my PIN. Well, I don't know the PIN for my corporate credit card since I've never needed it before. I didn't need it Friday night for dinner. It's pretty hard to call the credit card company from the hotel room. I tried and failed.

I also took a photo of my room so you can see where I'm typing these dispatches from. In the corner there on the nightstand in the corner without the light, you can see some of my snack food supply to supplement dinner adventures.

It's getting late and I need to get to bed.