Wal-Mart -- A Chinese Adventure

It was a near unanimous vote by our group -- "Take us to Wal-Mart!"

So yesterday, at 3pm, we boarded our bus for the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Wuhan. It was a half-hour bus ride. Traffic is so bad here, that to go anywhere takes 30 minutes to an hour. The Wal-Mart has several floors.

Inside, it was a mad dash to the baby section. We bought 120 huggies, which we are sharing with another couple. We also bought more toys, shoes, Chips Ahoy cookies for daddy, Pringles for mommy, and a bag of something called "ball cakes" for Merrilee. They look like puppy treats to us, but they taste more like an American butter cookie. Our baby LOVES them. We did not buy any of the pre-packaged smoked and dried fish though...

All the stuff we bought was about $50. There were no long checkout lines, like in the states, but they do check every bill an American hands them, be it a US dollar or a Chinese yuan. Then it was back outside to wait for our bus...

You can see, Merrilee is beginning to warm up nicely to mommy...

We are really enjoying the trip but it is very hot and humid. At 9am today, it was already 86 degrees and so humid you could cut the air with a chain saw.