Cameras and costumes
Today I went with Carrie (one of the roommates) and Julie (she has the same birthday as me) to a photography store way on the other side of town. First of all, the directions we had said that if we took a taxi to this subway stop, it would be obvious where this place was. We got off at the stop and started walking down this road that the store was supposed to be on. After asking four people and walking for around 20 minutes, we found it, definitely not obvious because it was nowhere near the subway stop.
The place was crazy, I was imaging something like B&H in NY where everything is organized and if you want a Canon digital SLR, you go to one spot to look for it. This place however (as many of these megastores are) was comprised of many small booths selling a lot of the same stuff. So you would have some 20 different booths selling cameras, another 20 selling lighting and so on. Then about half of the place was stores with fancy dresses, wedding dresses and crazy gaudy costumes. There were also shops with a variety of backgrounds that you can choose to take your photo in front of. I guess you can dress up and take photos in front of a romantic bridge going over a river of waterlilies. TACKY! But man it would be fun to do, get dressed up in the most hideous dress and then pose in front of a sunset or some weirdness. And no worries about makeup, there were a load of makeup booths all over the place too.
After we had had enough of the madness there, we walked down the street a bit and found a bunch of furniture stores. As we were walking into one, Julie opened the door and a mother ran out with her child and held her to the sidewalk where the kid peed right in front of us. As gross as it sounds, I think that kid almost peed on Julie and my guess is the woman knew the kid had to pee because it had already started to on her, EWWWW! Still not a fan of the open pants thing for kids.
For dinner we ordered take-out from a Mexican place and I will just say that fajitas are best eaten at a restaurant, not delivered, they were definitely not worth it.
The place was crazy, I was imaging something like B&H in NY where everything is organized and if you want a Canon digital SLR, you go to one spot to look for it. This place however (as many of these megastores are) was comprised of many small booths selling a lot of the same stuff. So you would have some 20 different booths selling cameras, another 20 selling lighting and so on. Then about half of the place was stores with fancy dresses, wedding dresses and crazy gaudy costumes. There were also shops with a variety of backgrounds that you can choose to take your photo in front of. I guess you can dress up and take photos in front of a romantic bridge going over a river of waterlilies. TACKY! But man it would be fun to do, get dressed up in the most hideous dress and then pose in front of a sunset or some weirdness. And no worries about makeup, there were a load of makeup booths all over the place too.
After we had had enough of the madness there, we walked down the street a bit and found a bunch of furniture stores. As we were walking into one, Julie opened the door and a mother ran out with her child and held her to the sidewalk where the kid peed right in front of us. As gross as it sounds, I think that kid almost peed on Julie and my guess is the woman knew the kid had to pee because it had already started to on her, EWWWW! Still not a fan of the open pants thing for kids.
For dinner we ordered take-out from a Mexican place and I will just say that fajitas are best eaten at a restaurant, not delivered, they were definitely not worth it.
posted by Ramune at
3/19/2006 07:50:00 PM
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