Wednesday, July 23
Today we went to the city and along St.Kilda Road by tram to the Chinese Consulate to pick up our passports with the visas we need for our trip to Shanghai. We're all set now.
After lunch we walked down to the newly completed Emporium Melbourne and were blown away with the complex and the amazing variety of stores in it. There were a number of stores we'd seen overseas, and there were some new ones we'd never heard of. Two Japanese companies now have stores in this complex, one called Uniqlo (a clothing store) and the other was called Muji (a minimalist brand selling clothes, homewares, furniture etc), and their prices were very reasonable. This new complex now means we don't need to look in shops overseas that we now have in Melbourne, and never thought we'd have.
The other store and concept that blew us away was the Magnum shop, which had a long queue of people lining up to buy a customized Magnum ice cream. This consisted of choosing your Magnum flavor, then your melted chocolate flavor to go over it, and finally selecting 3 or 4 toppings to go on it or with it in a little tray. We couldn't believe that mid afternoon on a winters day in Melbourne there would be a continual queue for a customized ice cream - and that so many people were willing to pay A$8 for one!!
It's great being home again and making new discoveries in your home town, but we're looking forward to next weeks trip to Shanghai and some warmer weather.
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