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Day 59

Our mission today was to find the Sunday Market. It happens on the last Sunday of every month. We had a lot of trouble finding someone who knew about it. After Starbucks we decided to give up on it for a little while and try to go on a tour of the Blue Mansion. Unfortunately, by the time we arrived there we were too late for the 1100 tour. We would have to wait until the 1500 one.

There were some artists sitting acts the street sketching the beautiful building. I wanted to go see what their drawings looked like. We admired them for a few minutes and talked to the artists. They said they knew all about the Sunday Market. It was just around the corner!

So our luck had changed and we walked on over. The market reminded me of a small-scale Mayfest. It only took up one wide, but short street. There was all different kinds of art and handicrafts for sale. After walking around for about an hour we had seen everything. We were hungry too.

We headed over to SOHO for lunch and the free internet. It was China and Japan research time. I was really hoping to be able to go to a concert somewhere over here, so I looked that up. It took a lot of searching because they don't have a ticketmaster equivalent. Baseball season is over; sumo wrestling is only in certain months (and really expensive); and I didn't know any bands that were playing or how to buy tickets.

Kelsey and Kelly played a good game of pool with some guys from the Australian Navy while I spent some quality time on Facebook. The internet is such a great tool. It def makes life better. After this trip I realize how much time I spend on the internet every day. But I'm not going to change because it's not a bad addiction.

We got so caught up in Facebook and pool at SOHO that we missed our tour of the Blue Mansion. We had to get back to the boat! Goodbye Malaysia.
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