"Rain rain go away come again some other day..."
Rainy day in Zhengzhou today when we left the house it was lightly raining and as our day progressed the rain grew heavier then went to a steady moderate rain. All three of us went to Wanda Plaza today by bus, one of my new Chinese teacher friends Ellie told me what bus to take from near our house to Wanda Plaza and today we tried this with Nate. Glad we took the bus as it was not a pleasant day to be riding on e-bikes or scooters. Since it was lunch time when we went out we tried a new restaurant to us and just a warning to all, if the waiter acts like you ordered a very hot dish you might want to change your order the food was most defiantly hot, tasty but hot. I was able to order three orders of noodles (made at our table) and then a bowl of rice for Chuck. This was a hot pot restaurant where a pot is placed on the heating element in your table and once the liquid in it comes to a boil you can add the other things that you ordered. Our hot pot came with a whole chicken in it; we were unsure of the type of meat but soon understood that it was chicken because we found a foot and the head water was added to our pot once it got to our table. After watching a waiter make noodles for another table we decided that noodles would be a good thing to add. Nate and I love noodles so that is what we did. After lunch we needed something to cool down our mouths and we went up to Dairy Queen on the second floor of Wanda. There we got ice cream, but it is funny it almost seems like there is some kind of radar alerting the rest of the mall that the foreigners are where ever. There was a small line to get ice cream/bingqilin or冰淇淋 but after we ordered and were waiting for our dessert people came from all over the mall. After the ice cream we walked the mall and did a little shopping in Wal-Mart. Sadly Chuck decided that longer hair was too much of a hassel in the summer heat here and bought a pair of hair clippers and shaved his head today, I am once again married to a 6 foot tall scrub brush. Well it will grow back. I am starting to read a book that is in Chinese with pinyin, “Around the World in Eighty Days” I don’t remember reading this classic in the states and I’m looking forward to doing so now.