Do you have pancake syrup?

I've meaning to update on our past weekend fun. We went to Guangzhou for the day. Guangzhou is the largest city in our province. Blasen wanted to do some shopping and find an international food store that he thought would have some pancake syrup. Blasen loves him some pancakes and french toast. I'm surprised he's lasted this long. So, off we went to the big city to look for pancake syrup!
The first purchase was a new purse for me. We see these purses every Sunday on our way to church, Blasen and I both like them, and since it was Saturday, we stopped to see them. She told me the ridiculous price she wanted for it right as the police start trying to clear all the vendors out from the sidewalk. So, that was my chance. I knew she would want to sell it fast. I really like this bag too...red, my favorite color.
Then it was on to Beijing Road, a solely pedistrian road in Guangzhou, that has tons of shopping. We found some historic stuff too when we were there. I guess a few years back, when redoing the roads they uncovered the remains of the original Beijing road from the Tang Dynasty from the 7th Century. Cool, huh? They have a couple areas unearthed and you can look down thru some glass to see.

Under the glare, you may see some old stone.

So, the grocery store Blasen wanted to go to was a Carrefour! I couldn't believe they had those here in China. For those of you that don't know, Carrefour is a Swiss grocery store. I used to go to Carrefour all the time in France. I was so hoping to find some yummy treats there. We did find the syrup, but paid about $3-4 for one bottle. They did have granola with chocolate pieces...very Swiss, but I resisted. It was pretty pricey too, for such a small box. I may give in next time though. Unfortunately, they didn't have many international items. We bought some pasta and pasta sauce for Sunday dinner.

The boys enjoyed the spaghetti. Bliss you see is embracing the Chinese culture by throwing a peace sign in for the camera.

We did some other shopping and headed home for the day, because we had to come back the next day for church. The boys were exhausted, as we all were, but we had a fun day. That night we topped off the day with French toast for dinner.

There was a talent/model search going on outside the Carrefour and Zade willingly participated.

This weekend, we're headed to Hong Kong. We will go see the LDS temple there and do some more shopping. We are still deciding on either to go to Disneyland Hong Kong or Ocean Park, another amusement park that has animals too. The boys are excited about that part. It should be lots of fun. The bus ride is about 3-4hours, so that should be interesting, but Bliss likes bus rides.
We'll definitely take lots of pictures and I'll post them next week. Wish us luck. Hong Kong is a lot bigger a city than Foshan, but more English is spoken there, so I'm excited for that.