Xu Jia Hui - the 5th avenue of the wealthy suburb in Shanghai.  Five huge department store malls - two of which are really like US malls, the other three are much more like big, huge, gigantic stores.  One "store" on each corner - yes, there are five corners!! 

Weird though as there are 25 counters of the same thing in each area.  So we went to pick up an MP3 player - yeah, I REALLY need something to take the edge off of the bus rides - especially the ones to Zha Bei at 6:30 in the morning.  Some light music to just keep me nice and relaxed!

First we ate, just like a US mall eating corner except there were tons more variations on Chinese, Japanese and Korean - YES, still BK, KFC and ... We then went deeper into the "store" to where the MP3, etc. counters were.  Long story short - we bought a nice 4 gig player for 630 Yuan (about $84) - the iPods were up in the 1,200 range same with the new Stone Zen from Creative.  I already have over 3.3 gigs on the player, used it twice for over 1 hour each time and discussed the purchase in class (yes, as you all know, I use most of my life in class!!!).

One final comment, I still have no idea where they all get the money to buy everything in the stores!!!  The stuff is EXPENSIVE - US standards, no doubt!!!  AND I really don't feel comfortable paying the prices!!  Name Brand so maybe that's why!  Anyone from America would definitely feel right at home if they loved to shop!