Day 9
Ate a Western Breakfast this morning, not quite as good as the last hotels. No lychee fruits:(. Checked out of one hotel and in to another, a bit out of the city center.MUCH nicer. Comfy Western bed. So grateful for a soft bed, I quite sore from the last one. After we got settled we took a cab to the Forbidden City. Much larger than I expected.Very interesting history too. Sort of wish we would have been in a guided tour, because there must be tons more information we don't get from reading the little signs. We had tons of people come up to us and ask to be our 'tour guide' with their shoddy English. Or, people wanting to sell us art, that David knew was a scam. So, since we sort of look Italian, we decide to respond with 'Italian' instead of English as our way of saying 'no'. We only know 1 or 2 words, and one of them is food. But, they don't know that. So when people would ask us if we wanted to buy their art, we would respond with "Ciao, rigatoni?" And they would look very confused and say sorry and walk away. It was very amusing to us. After that we went to a shopping center for lunch, Peking duck. David told me it would taste like chicken. If you're wondering, NO, it does not taste like chicken. Then I found an H&M! But realized it
was even more expensive than home. We then spent the afternoon trying to find another Shi Jia (foot massage). We found a 'spa' of sorts that would do it, more expensive than the last though. At first I thought all the women were giggling because Americans were there to get a foot massage. But then I realized they were giggling because a man was there to get a massage. Poor David. When we were done, 5 of them walked us to the door and waved goodbye for a good minute or so before we were out of sight. Haha... Since we can't read Chinese, we had to find a restaurant with pictures. These resturaunts are usually in the malls. We found a good one, with pictures and English! Mom, they had Hot and Sour soup! It looks just like the kind we have, but tastes very vinegary. Also found spring rolls, filled with shrimp, but, still good. We wanted some soy sauce to dip them in, so David got our his english/chinese translating book to find the word for soy sauce. We asked one server, then 2, then 5 of them were all at our table trying to figure out what he meant. They thought we didn't like our spring rolls, then they thought we wanted a beer, then they thought we didn't get everything we ordered. Finally, I asked for 'soya sauce' which is written on the bottles, and they all said "OH! soya sauce!!!" aaahhahah. Funny. Side note. I love their English translations. On the plane, there was a napkin that read- You are welcome to fly our plane service. And on a road sign it read- Bon Voyage on you trip, thank you for your welcome. That was my favorite. Super excited to se
e the Great Wall tomorrow!!!
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