Thursday, July 23, 2009

A Movie Lovers Paradise

So, at the 7-11 next door to the hotel, they have all sorts of great items, including fried squid on a stick, Pringles (in such flavors as Shrimp, Crab, and, of course, Seaweed), and hundreds of candies' toys, magazines and videos of a cartoon called Pleasant Goat & Big Bad Wolf. This is a cartoon we started watching with Gigi. It seemed cute, until the goat and the wolf suddenly grabbed swords an started slicing each other us,blood flying and all. CRAZY!!
Anyway, just outside of the 7-11 is a cart with every DVD you could want. For example, the new Star Trek, Tranformers 2, Bruno, and the latest Harry Potter movie. Obviously since some of these movies have only been out for about a week they are not, as John Travolta would say, "100% legal." The guy swears up and down that they will play in the US and are high quality DVDs. He even told me to try one in my laptop and that he would take it back if t di not play or was not good, but there is no way I am starting out fatherhood by committing a felony on foreign soil. The saddest part is that th movies are $18 yuan, which is about $2.75 each, an the guy said if I bought several he would "give me best very good price." Oh,well.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very good price! Didn't you see the street vendors in NYC doing the same? Only they charge $5 a pop. LOL

Kathleen

Anonymous said...

buy one of each ..sell them on ebay when you get back to help pay for your trip!! ..yvonne