The Casualties of Micro Water-Creatures

So news for the past couple days.... apparently I can't drink the tap water here or something.... Or maybe it was just a combination of being jetlagged and hungover but I was pretty sick a couple mornings ago. But everything was okay after I threw up. Hah. Then ate a giant breakfast of cheese and bread which was delicious. Post-vomit vittles.
So anyway, we went around this shopping area with a lot of different stores, most of which were way too expensive. I thought it was very interesting that Diesel and Gas were both located on the same corner. Although, I'm not sure how Gas would fly in the U.S.
We found the American Apparel on the street, which was sort of disappointingly small (though not as small as our store) and relatively unattractively merchandised. I got the feeling the employees thought we were stealing or something because we were wandering around the store and I was touching all the hangers like hmmm so that's how they hang the bandeaus...
There was actually a separate store a little ways down for the California Select vintage stuff, which was much more interesting.
And of course, there was H&M, where everything is so tantalizingly cheap and just barely straddling the line between shit and fashion gold.
There were also a lot of really good vintage stores around, my favorite being this one where everything was organized by color. Soo many fur coats. They're so beautiful I forget about all the PETA stuff and how at one point that used to be something's skin.
We also discovered Monika's bike, which she had lost track of in a sort of crazy night a week ago, locked up just fine in the street. Minus the back tire which had been squished when her coworker sat on it.