How to make Eleanor squee

[janedavitt]

We drove to the Pacific Mall in Markham today, an indoor Chinese/Japanese/Korean marketplace with hundreds of tiny shops, and very little English writing anywhere which was interesting and mildly freaky; I'm not used to going into bookshops and not being able to read, heh.

Hello Kitty was EVERYWHERE which pleased L and E freaked out over the anime stuff, culminating in pure delight when she found S1 and 2 of Black Butler in a DVD shop for $10 each. The S1 English dub comes out here in a couple of weeks so you can imagine how excited she was. S1 is all Japanese, but S2 has English sub-titles and both play on our DVD players despite saying 'Bluray' on the front.

If you're wondering why we bought DVDs that we thought were in Japanese and in a format we couldn't play, clearly you don't have a teenager obsessed with something :-)

Comments

[scrollgirl]

You went to Pacific Mall? You're a far braver woman than I. The parking there is *insane*.

[janedavitt]

Everyone's saying that but we got a spot easily and it was really quiet inside; lots of the shops were closed though which was probably why :-)

[scrollgirl]

Huh. I'm surprised there were shops closed. During Boxing Week? But then I suppose these aren't the kinds of shops to have Boxing Week sales--they have sale prices all year round.

My family only really goes to Pacific Mall when we're invited to dinner at the Chinese restaurant there, but my friends who live in the area used to hang out there all the time when they were younger. It's definitely a different experience than shopping at Square One.

[janedavitt]

There were maybe a quarter of the shops closed, which still left a lot to go for. If it meant we had an easier time parking, I'll live with that :-)