Clothes clothes & more clothes

First thing this morning we went off looking for a tailor called Yaly because we had heard good things about them (there are approx 400 tailors here so it makes it very hard to choose just one). we sat in Yaly looking through books of magazine clippings for over an hour trying to choose something for them to make for us. i decided on two dresses and after ewen found out they couldnt make him a military jacket he decided on a winter coat.



They are doing a lot of road works down by the river and this is on of the machines they are using.

we then went and had a drink at a river-front cafe where i had the most disgusting pineapple juice off the trip so far.



This woman requested we take a photo with her, she then proceeded to try to get us to pay $1 for a banana as payment for taking her photo....

we went for a walk and i ended up stopping at a different tailors and getting some pants made and THEN we went to yet another tailors and i ordered another dress and ewen ordered some shorts and a shirt.
we went to a nice resturant for lunch where they gave us ice cold face washers which was very refreshing after walking aroud in the heat all morning. we liked this resturant so much we came back here for tea too!
after lunch we walked back to the hotel to get ewens atm card because mine wouldnt let me draw out any cash (i had paid a deposit with it at yaly and the atms either told me they were unable to perform a transaction or i was over my daily limit... hopefully my card will work today).


Here is the Japanese Bridge, old isn't it......

we ended up going for a swim and then heading back into town at about 5.30 to go to the the second two tailors to get our clothes fitted and see if they needed adjusting. none of them did so we ended up getting one dress, one pair of pants, one pair of shorts and one shirt made in about 6 hours!
today we have a fitting at yaly at 10am. all up my three dresses and pants will cost me about $120. the two dresses from yaly are $50 each but thats because i chose nice fabric and they have linings.
so that was our friday, today we plan to walk arond some of the historical sights and maybe go to the beach this afternoon.
missing everyone!!!
xoxox