Shopping in St. George

Today, as it was a nice sunny day, we went to the capital St. George to shop. Yes I do live in St George area, but not in the city center :)) Well actually our main motive to go today, was that there wasn't any big tourist caribbean cruise boats here today.

So first we started at Bruce Street mall (ostoskeskus = mall) where we found half of the places shut. There were few nice clothing stores, but as I said most of them were closed. This mall is not very big and it contains the only escalator in this island. Sonja told me that not all the natives know how to use it and they prefer the stairs next to them.

As we didn't find anything there, we then ventured to the Esplanade mall. It is right next to the Bruce Street mall so we didn't need to walk very far. When we were entering the establishment we were stopped by this local entrepreneur. He referred himself as a king, and showed us what he had with him to sell us. We didn't seem to be able to get rid of him, but luckily Sonja saw something that she liked. So we bought a thingy from him and we thought that we were finally free.

We weren't that lucky. There was another guy next to him who offered to take us to the market. When we said that we didn't like to walk out very much as we would get burned, he voluntered to take us with his taxi, which he didn't have a minute earlier ;) Then we had to put our foot down, and said that we weren't interested of it at the moment.

First we went into a store (can't remember the name, sorry) to look new shoes for me. I didn't think I needed new ones, as the crocks that I have works fine for me. Well this small pit stop ended up being a lot longer. When ever I found a nice shoe, tried it on to see it was too big, I asked the clerk if they had smaller ones... He always said sorry no. So in the end we found okey shoes, and surprise surprise they were too small... I then asked for a bigger one, which they didn't have :)) Finally we were able to find one more pair of too small, too big and they actually found the right size for me :)))

So of course we bought the shoes as it seems that I am not able to find very easily ones that would fit me. Also they are black, leather and some what comfy, so no complaints. ;)Then Jouni joined our little group after going to the bank and paying some bills. Oh, no. He did not pay the bills in the bank. It is not the way here. He paid it at the e.g. internet store. They send you the bill home, and then you come and pay it. It is that simple.

We found some really good looking clothes there, but unfortunately I would have to loose more then few pounds before fitting in them. So we went next to the book store. We were able to spent some time there as well, as to find a good book you needed to play hide and seek with the book. I searched from the far corner (the place was a bit wierd shaped) and was able to find some Stephen King :) I also chose a book from Patricia Cornwell. Sonja found a historical book and a childrens story book by Hans Christian Andersen.

After a yummy fruit punch and donuts we went to search some jogging shoes for Jouni. Long story short, he had worse luck then me aka no shoes. Sonja had a bit better luck and was able to talk Jouni in to buying a one more hand bag :)) Well it looks really grate and I am sure Sonja will use it. Here is a picture of what we bought: