lil bit mo'

k so i left off with the french concession.  Bought you all a ton of fun China prezzies. Get ready.  There are pearls everywhere for dirt cheap.  Leather bound journals, HUGE, and reaaally nice, for 25 RMB...a little more than three bucks! Clothes, silk, ughh it's shopping heaven!   After that area, we headed to the Shanghai fabric market, which is a 3 story mall packed with shops selling fabric, clothes, and advertising custom-made everything! I found the most amazing coat on the first floor.  It was electric blue with a high collar and buttons, fitted to my waist, and then flared out.  I was in love with it, but it was a teeny bit tight in the shoulders.  The woman was asking 800 RMB for it.  I said 400 and she laughed at me.  Then she brought it down to 550.  I said 425 and she said 500, no lower.  She didn't budge so I left.  Then we got to the third floor and Adam took me to a lady he had met earlier in the week.  She said if Adam took a picture of the coat, brought it back up to her, and she took my measurements, she'd make it for me in 2 days for 400 RMB.  Done and Done, two days later I picked up the most beautiful coat in the world.  Fit to me and made of blue cashmere (: 55 buckaroos!!!! I feel like Madeleine in it!
After the coat escapade, we walked back to people's square and on our way, Adam and I got squid on a stick.  Amazingly delicious. We also all bought trendy face masks.  True Chinese now.
Let's see.. what else?
Dominique has been on for Tyrone for the past few days because JoNathan had to leave for family reasons.  We miss him a ton. Dom is doing great though! Keepin' it fresh.  The show is going great.  We leave Shanghai tomorrow morning for Xi'an and Tuesday we get to see the Terra Cotta Warriors.  Freaking excited, but bummed about leaving Shanghai.  I really love this city, and it's so huge, I feel like I didn't get to see everything that I should have.
I believe I covered the main points of the past week.  I'll try to keep ya'll updated more frequently from now on.  Gooooodnight!