Shopping Excursion

We went shopping Sunday during the day to get some supplies and snacks for our office suite. The company has several drivers contracted for our use during the games, and we've got access to one of them during the lead-up days. He tends to get a little lost, but "means well" and this was no exception...we meandered a bit but hey--we got to see a few more sights than we would've if we took a direct path! Our destination: Carrefort...a French chain that's something like a Wal-Mart SuperCenter. Only this one was in a shopping mall, was multi-story (and you had to pay at one level before you could move onto another one), and the level on which we bought most of our stuff seemed to have a single register open (despite there being thousands of people shopping there). Weird stuff!

We asked the driver where we could find some western-style snacks and he drove us to a little mom-and-pop store adjacent to a Holiday Inn (Kick-back? We couldn't figure out if the store owners were related to him or not). But he was right--they had lots of American brand snacks. We filled a cart to bursting and headed for the checkout. I wouldn't be surprised if they just closed up and went home when we were done--it was probably their typical sales for an entire week.

Here are a couple of pics from our excursion. You can't see it very well because of the terrible smog, but the curved-top building had huge LED TV screens in the sides right under the 2nd round bump-out.