It's the start of the typhoon season here in Asia. The news report that this typhoon is the biggest typhoon to hit the east coast of China in decades. After enduring 90F days for over a week, I was thinking that we get some relief. I had no idea we were getting hit by a big storm after watching the news reports and it started raining like cats and dogs here in Shanghai. I never experienced rain like this except for when Jonathan and I went to the Global MBA conference in Singapore this past year.
It rained, rained, and rained for most of the day. During lunch we found a lunch spot to get our of the rain. Matt and I talked about getting bikes would a great idea to travel around our local neighborhoods b/c we were tired of walking around which was tiring and time consuming. We also discussed that we wanted to be productive with our time and not sit around in our condos doing nothing. Then a light bulb turned on in our heads. Let's get bikes at Carrefour today once there's a slight break in the rain.
It was getting dark and rained lightened up a bit. We decided to go for it. So, we walked to the subway to get to Zhongshang Park subway station where Carrefour was located. We looked at the slim bike selection. Matt picked yellow, I picked red. No purple or pink was in stock. We tried riding around in the store. Right away we knew why it costs only $25USD. Price and Quality was in effect. No complaints here. It was a good deal. We took them. Got them tightened up and adjusted.
The experience of riding back in the rain was priceless. Kinda of scary but thrilling also as we had to dodge taxis, other riders, and pedestrians in the dark. We made it back in one piece!!!!
Here's our total damages for this outing.
Two Bikes=$310RMB
Two Baskets=$42RMB
Two Locks=$36RMB
Two Bike Ponchos=$38RMB
One air pump=$15RMB
(In total USD=$35 per person)
Riding back in a typhoon=priceless
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