DVD Shopping

On Monday night, Kyle took us to a "really good" DVD store. This was not one of those "back of a restaurant illegal dvd selling" operations. This place had quality DVDs, in nicely made cases, and actually had a store front. It was oozing "legit, but only in China". Lili got a number of quality DVDs from this place. I was looking for Napoleon Dynamite, but came away with Wallace and Gromit.

However, there were a couple of problems this particular night:

No. 1 - Kyle couldn't exactly locate this place. He had been here once before when he was "kinda" buzzed, and so it took him a while to get oriented. He wasn't able to find it until after he made Lili and I walk through the shady bar area where foreigners and guys were drunk and trying to lure us into having drinks there. Someone even tried to steal Kyle's Gillette shaving cream from his coat pocket. However, Kyle did eventually find this DVD store, all the while avoiding the drug dealers the next block over. Whoo hoo!

No. 2 - We had about $30 between the three of us. This meant careful DVD-buying planning in order to have enough money for the cab right back to Kyle's. We were fortunate enough to realize this prior to our actual DVD purchasing. Had this not been the case, we would have had to ask the drug dealers next door for some cash...which probably would not have been a good thing.

All in all, Kyle (with the assistance of fellow Microsoft person Eden) made Beijing a fun and really eye opening experience =)