Finally, the weather is beginning to warm up! It was a beautiful sunny day, complete with blue sky. Today we took our usual Saturday 2-mile walk down the road to check out the new DVDs at our friendly DVD shop, and check out the pastries at the popular Korean bakery, Panamie. One DVD, a couple of pastries, (and two coffees for Zach) later, we squeezed onto the bus to head back towards home. We stepped off the bus next to Jia Jia Yue (pronounced "jah-jah yu-ay"), our local supermarket, to get a few items before completing the circuit back home.
One thing about Jia Jia Yue is that no matter what time of the day you go there, the staff is always restocking or rearranging the store. You have to navigate around boxes and carts and the busy staff members in the narrow aisles. Today was no different. :-) Zach and I were going to the second floor of the store to get some cleaning items first. However, barring our way to the escalator was a most amusing sight. On the first floor, one worker was unloading a pallet of boxes of beer, and sending them--box by box--up the escalator to another worker waiting on the second floor. It was a little, orderly parade of green boxes of Tsingtao and Yantai beer ascending up the escalator. My imagination supplied some tinkly circus music to accompany this curious spectacle, and I just had to let out a good-natured laugh. It was one of those common, everyday goings-on that, at the right moment, can be so uncommonly funny!
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