Today Jeanne and I went to the tailors. We took Venus with us, a local young woman from our church who speaks Chinese. What a God-send! The taxi couldn't drive us to the door of the tailor shop because the street was too narrow so we got out and walked. We had a business card from the tailors but there's no address just the street name and the name of the tailor shop. We walked down the street and didn't see anything that looked like a tailor shop. Venus asked someone on the street - narrow residential street 3 blocks long - and this lady said that the tailor was eating lunch so she took us to his apartment. He came out and told Venus where the shop was. We found the shop - no name on it- and walked right into the workroom. The woman was very nice - no English- Venus helped all of us understand each other and in about 20 days we'll go back and see how everything turns out! I'm having 4 skirts made and 5 blouses. Nothing fantastic but it will be nice. She had some beautiful coats there in the shop. They cost about 700 yuan to make, U.S. $110.00. While we were there a girl came in to pick up two coats and they looked great on her.
Dad walked over to a new DVD store with Nelson. They're not back yet. I hope I am spending more money than he will. :)
Love you girls...and boys! Mom XXOO
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