Buying presents

We spent the afternoon out and about today buying presents! It was a little chilly (about -2 when we left) but not too bad.
When we were in Wangfujing St, we saw a huge crowd of westerners dressed as Santas wandering through the pedestrian mall. It wasn't totally clear what they were doing though

They sort of wandered up the street (followed by a police car and vaguely annoying traffic when they crossed the road) and stopped in the park.

We headed around to a few places for presents, reasonably successfully which is nice, then headed back home once it started getting properly cold. I mentioned the other day that children were walking across the pond, but there were about 5 on there when we were coming back. It's weird, but I'm going to walk across before then end of winter :)