We got some sleep which helped with the jet lag. The jump 12 hours forward actually seemed to help. We will see what happens when we go back the other direction. The hotel breakfast had both Chinese and American choices on the buffett. I noticed that they spelled the fried egg wrong on the sign card. I told Ryan, one of our tour guides that they spelled it “e-e-g” and they should have spelled it “e-g-g”. He actually thought I was practicing Mandarin on him because both spellings can be interpreted to mean something in Chinese. The “e-g-g” is actually something not so nice. When we figured out we were working in two different languages, we both got a laugh and I was embarrassed at what I had actually said. After breakfast, we had a chance to go exploring. China is more of a tea country and we needed coffee so we set off to find the nearest Starbucks. It was a few blocks away. At the café, we saw many people preparing for a festival of flowers. It included a large group of young adults dancing in what could have been confused for a flash mob. It was quite entertaining and I hope to get a brief video posted of it sometime. Our tour for the day included the City Wall where we got to take a bicycle a lap around the wall. Many pictures are posted from that. We then went to a hot pot lunch. Each person gets their own hot pot and they pick fresh items placed on the center of the table and put them in there pot and boil them. You also create your own combination of sauces to dip your boiled food into. It was an interesting process to create lunch. After lunch we toured the Shaanxi museum. Many historical relics for the province are found there. We had a short break back at the hotel and then it was off to a dumpling dinner and a show. Hopefully you will see some of the pictures from the show on the blog. The show tried to depict ancient times in the Shaanxi province through song and dance. The dumplings were amazing and they feed us more than we needed.
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