The best deal ever!

In January I went to China with my grandfather for my sisters graduation ceremony and to the region where my grandfather was born. A very memorable trip with loads of pics that I'd love to share.

I haven't exactly finished sorting through all the pics from my recent trip but I did find some of the most important ones to post here: Food and shoe pics, haha!

There are waay too many to choose from so I thought I'd post a few assorted pics here for you guys to see. (More pics to come in a later entry)



This is when my sister, her friend and I went to a department store in BEIJING where I made the best deal (more on that later) on shoes. After all that shopping, a girl is BOUND to be tired, right? So we went downstairs to the food court and got something called "Mala guo" For those who don't speak Chinese this can be translated as darn spicy pot!

We tell the person helping us what kind of vegetables and meats we want. There are only two ways they'll prepare it for us: "spicy" or "VERY spicy". Not really knowing what that extra "very" indicated, we opted for just the spicy one. We walk around, trying to find a table and seats and when our number is called we can go collect the pot.

I tried it and let me just say that I sure was happy that we opted for the regular spicy as opposed to the VERY spicy version. Seriously, I thought I could take spicy food and although all three of us managed to finish it, I do remember thinking how grateful I was that it wasn't any spicier.

Now before the dinner we went to this shoe store and saw all the GORGEOUS shoes on display. I was a bit reluctant to go inside but my sister assured me that it would be "okay" sine they were having a sale. I picked up a shoe and almost choked when I saw the price tag. My cheeks started burning and I couldn't for the life of me stop my heart from going faster. I asked the sales assistant if this was for real and she just smiled and nodded and went on to explain that due to the financial crisis and the January sales, the prices were extremely low.

And whaddya know, normally I can never find shoes on sale here in Denmark because I'm aprox. the same size as all other European women, size 38, but in asia my feet are considered to be rather big (which is wonderful during sales) I was like a kid in a candy store and wanted to try them all! I finally managed to narrow it down to...7 pairs of shoes, well knowing I couldn't buy them all. So I "settled" for a gorgeous pair of Miu Miu boots and 5-6 pairs of Louboutin shoes. Not knowing which ones to let go. I looked at the SA and asked if it was possible to give discounts to a poor student like me, and she almost fell down laughing. She continued to wipe her tears and though the laughter and trembling she managed to say: no, we don't offer student discounts here but because you're so sweet and nice I'm gonna give you an additional 15% discount.

So the best part? I got it all, well the ones I really liked (4 pairs of Louboutin shoes and a pair of Miu miu boots) for the regular price of one pair of Louboutin. This was an offer I couldn't refuse and I pushed the thought of a very angry bank advisor to the back of my mind and thought I'd take it up with her when I got home. Deals like these don't come often I reasoned with myself, so I nodded and handed her my credit card.

Here are the beauties I took home:












Miumiu boots!