This Mid-Autumn Festival is being celebrated this weekend here in China so we have a three day weekend. We didn't really have any plans. We're just looking forward to taking it easy, sleeping in, reading, dinner with friends, etc. This was a good plan since it started raining Saturday afternoon and didn't stop until Sunday night. However, by Sunday afternoon we were getting a little antsy and wanted to get out but it was still raining. So, where's a good place to go walk around when it's raining? The mall, of course. We went downtown to Super Brand Mall.
The malls here - like everything else - go up instead of out. What I mean is that you won't find a big sprawling complex spread over a hundred acres like we're accustomed to in the States. There just isn't enough land here for that. Well, I guess there's enough land - there are just too many people. Anyway, this place is pretty big. Ten floors above ground, three more underground (13 is not an unlucky number here). I never really seen the whole mall because I get turned around and end up lost every time I go there.
Unfortunately, we weren't the only people looking to get out of the house. About a million or so other people had the same idea. These pictures will give you some sense of how crowded it was but really don't do it justice. Actually, this was pretty much an average crowd for a Sunday afternoon.
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