My shopping trip to the old city
I bought a big dragon kite for Jake, and Mao bags (so cheap) for mom and me, and two tea cups with Chinese landscapes, puppets for Steve and I, a jade ring for my middle finger (to stop the spending!), one jade ring for me and one for Fatmalicious to wear on her thumb as she is want to do with her rose gold band, and I could have kept on shopping – I wanted the big red lanterns to hang them everywhere – D and I wanted to get the large stone statues – he wanted the dogs and I the elephants but they are so BIG and HEAVY – they cost as much to ship as to buy. The Tibetan shop could have kept me in there for hours. We had pearls strung at Ms. Pearls – I selected with D’s expert eye – two strands for me, one long and one perfect – a long strand for Jerri as a thank you for watching Arlene – pearl earrings for all my great nieces – and they threw in a Chinese purse.
Then we went to the fabric mart and I took my Nanette Lepore pants that make my ass look so great and had three pants made exactly like them, a denim, a brown and a black pair – and two suits copied from my Piazza Sempione suit – one khaki with a pale blue pinstripe and one grey – so CHEAP – unbelievable – but I had to leave my pants and suit behind – so now my wardrobe in New York shrunk even more.