Mooncake correction and shopping fun

Well, I was wrong about the previously stated "chocolate" mooncake
that we ate. It was actually coffee flavored. (Who knew?) Thanks to
Sam's chinese character reading skills we found the actual chocolate
mooncake and not only did it taste like chocolate, it was really good
too! We wished all of them could be chocolate.
In other news, Sam bought a guitar today. Its a chinese brand steel
string acoustic. I've been playing on it a little and the sound is
good. The only problem is that my fingers have no calluses so I can't
stand playing it for more than 10 minutes at a time. Since the
weather is starting to get colder I think playing guitar will be fun
thing to do on chilly nights. I'm really happy that it is starting to
feel like autumn here. I've already bought a winter coat and some
cute boots too! Sam and I have had some fun shopping lately. I
almost bought a fake Louis Vutton purse that I really just wanted to
look at. It was a typical scene here. I was walking through the
purse section of a local market when I heard the words "louis vutton",
"Gucci", "coach".....I looked up and didn't actually see any of those
brands so I asked the girl where they were. She brought out a catalog
full of Louis Vutton purses and asked me which one I liked. I highly
doubted that she had all those purses but I pointed at one anyway.
She brought out a ladder, climbed it and from the highest shelf pulled
out a big black bag. Inside was another bag that was yellow and soft
like suede. Inside that bag was the purse I had pointed to. It was a
really good fake with the tags and everything. Out of curiosity more
than anything I asked her how much it cost. She pulled out her
calculator (standard procedure with foreigners) and typed in 1650.00.
(That's rmb so about 265 US dollars) I just laughed and told her that
I knew it was a fake. She admitted that it was a fake but it was an A
huo, meaning the best of the fakes. (Of the fake goods you can get A,
B, or C huo quality. The A huo fakes are really good. Many times you
can't find the difference between the real.) I agreed that it was a
good fake but I didn't want to spend that much. She next told me she
would give me the "friend" price of 1500.00rmb. I laughed again.
Then she asked me how much I wanted to pay. I typed 150.00 into her
calculator and watched her face. She said she couldn't sell it that
cheap but then she really started to lower her price. By the time I
walked away she had come down to 350.00rmb (About 55 u.s. dollars) It
was a fun experience even though I walked away empty handed.