A Free Concert

Yesterday we all headed over to the fabric market to get some tailor-made clothes. This place is heaven ... it's three floors of stall after stall of fabric ... each with their own tailor. You go pick your fabric, pick your style, and a week later you have tailor-made clothes for 1/3 the price of something off the rack in the U.S.

Lillie always has a good time when we go to the fabric market. She (who we now call the mayor of Shanghai) fraternizes with all the workers in Chinese while we're getting sized and usually ends up getting some trinkets, candy, dried fish, or dehydrated duck tongue for the road.

Yesterday, when we first walked into the shop, we knew right away this trip to the fabric market would be one for the ages. Lillie made fast friends with all five of the workers in the shop and immediately began singing along with them in Chinese. After about five minutes of entertaining them with her banter she either decided to start singing solos or they asked her to (we never really got the exact story). She then proceeded to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star at the top of her four year old lungs ... in both English and Chinese. By the end of the English version about 12 people had packed into the small shop and rewarded her rendition with a plethora of applause.

If this wasn't embarrassing enough, she announced to everyone "I'll be back next week!" to advertise her next performance as we left the store.