I'll work on getting Gary (a/k/a One Dollar Warrior) to coordinate the pre-cruise boot camp conditioning exercises for the manly men. If they stick to the plan, they tackle the Great Wall trek (no self-respecting manly man will use the gondola head-start option!) to capture world-class photographic evidence of this feat. They will easily double-time it back to the Pearl Market in time to carry all our wonderful buys back to the hotel.

I will help coordinate translating your English names into Chinese. It's so very helpful when talking with the locals. For an added fee, we'll arrange to get your very own Chinese name chop!

Ngaire, I will be at the Pearl Market with y'all. Point me back to the bomb shelter-cum-Rolex-sales-office. I have also run out of Barbie & Ken wine bottle covers, so we'll need to get at least a gross this time. :D

Cheers, Anne (for purposes of this trip, jest call me Monkey Business)