We didn't do much on Friday except explore the city a little bit on our bicycles, which is, of course, always an adventure.  We found a Staples store, which was very exciting because I was having a hard time finding Scotch tape.  We have visited 3 large super-sized markets here in Beijing and no one has had tape, so I had given up.  But, Staples saved the day!  After that successful find, we then ventured over to one of the super-huge electronics stores.  There is one very wide, very long street in Beijing that has nothing but electronics stores lining each side -- lots of neon signs shining bright advertising all the electronic brand names we know and love. So we parked the bikes and took a look expecting to find some really terrific deals on computers, flatscreen TVs, cameras, etc.  Well, to our surprise, this is not what we found.  First, we found that shopping in 4-story huge electronics marts in China is extremely annoying.  For every customer in the store, there are about 10 salespeople all swarming you from booth to booth trying to get you to buy their products.  Clearly, they are working on commission.  Because we are those kinds of people that like to browse quietly and then ask questions if we have them, this experience was so un-fun.  These vultures, in fact, sucked all the fun out of the entire shopping attempt as we constantly had to push people away and say "no thank you, no thank you, no thank you" -- actually "bu xie xie, bu xie xie, bu xie xie" -- a MILLION times!!  Then, the prices were even more annoying!  We thought all these things made in China must certainly be cheaper in China than at home, but noooo.  At best, the prices were the same.  But, most of the time, the prices were much higher!  The SONY camera we bought for Hannah last year on her birthday was nearly $100 more here!  The iPods (the real ones anyway) are way more, the computers are way more, and the TVs are even way more!  How do the Chinese afford these things?  Now, there are some cheap things that you can find.  You can get a really small, 1GB flash drive that's pretty cool looking for about $20.  And you can find some cheap laptops made by some  obscure Chinese company that we have never heard of that is making knock-offs of more popular brand names.  But, for the most part, our electronics hopes were dashed.  It was really disappointing.  So, we left the super-sized store deflated knowing that we will not be cashing in on any real electronics super deals while in China.   Too bad.  But, if anyone wants a real small, 1GB flash drive, let me know!