It's strange, isn't it? If breakfast is free, you have to get up because there's no point in wasting a free breakfast. If it's paid for, you still have to get up, because that's a waste of money. So the only time you don't have to get up is if it's not free or not paid for. So, a non-existent breakfast. :P

So we got up for breakfast . There was a new girl at the desk who didn't recognise us and asked for our room number. One of the other ladies was mortified and shushed her up and brought us over to a table, apologising all the way. I was fine, as long as I got my frosties and dragon fruit. :)

Despite having spent a lot of time in shops and two days in Silk Street, I haven't really bought much (some sweets, some water, a topper for my eyeliner - no actual stuff!), so today was shopping day! Hurray! I spent a good while in Wangfujing and got a few gimicky things there, including some face masks. They girls here are as big on face masks as they are on whitening creams, but they're not a cream face mask you rub on your skin and let dry, like we have; they're an actual paper mask, like a hockey mask (or "Friday the 13th" mask if you want to be really creepy), so I'm lookin forward to expunging the pollution from my pores with that some day soon.

I went to Oriental Plaza then, to see if the western food shop, Olé, was still there. I got a bit lost in the Vero Modas and the Onlys, and when I say a Dairy Queen stand in the middle of the floor, where there hadn't been a Dairy Queen stand before, I thought Olé had been replaced. Then I saw a lady with a Starbucks mug, and remembered that they had been beside the shop, so I searched harder and was rewarded. :) There she was, and the original Dairy Queen shop was still beside her. I got some Kinder Bueno - a Twirl bar was about €2, and the wrappers all looked rather beaten up - and a big bottle of Evian, because all the other water here is just purified and the taste of it really gets to you after a while. :P

When I was done, I headed out Xuanwumen, to meet Daddy, who was wandering by himself today. We saw a church with mass in progress, and even though Chinese churches aren't allowed recognise the pope or any other leaders beyond the CCP, they seemed pretty happy, all singing and hand holding and waving and clapping. We went back to Wangfujing to Pizza Hut for food, which was alright, then back to Olé to get some Evian for Daddy, because he, too, is fed up of the purified stuff. :P

I got some sugary strawberry things there too, but they're Chinese, and I don't think they're doing my stomach any good. :P