Masquerade

Oh the cruelty of it all!!! Word was out that the Italian community was gonna have their Carnavale on Friday! A MASQUERADE party!! How absolutely divine!! Of course the 5 hip and happening women at work (moi included) got all hyped about it, envisioning the costumes we would wear, whether a mask would look better with or without feathers (that was me) and the people we'd meet. So there we were pouring over the website trying to locate the venue, only to be rather stumped when we couldn't recognise any of the roads. So we'd simply put it down as i) it was outside Shanghai city centre, or ii) it was held in the newest place TO BE , so new that we didn't even know it existed. That's ok, the next step was to simply call the organisers up and ask for directions. It was then we realised that instead of beginning with a 021 (state code for Shanghai), the phone number given began with a 010... The party was in Beijing... BLEH!