Climbing Mountains and Ordering Food

After a rough start to our vacation in China, Shawn and I both woke up feeling better. We had some breakfast at the hotel and at 9 a.m. on the dot, a green car pulled up in front of the hotel to take Shawn and I to climb the mountain. Our ride was set up by a wonderful Chinese friend named Alice who found someone to drive us there and back for half of what it would have cost using a travel agent. We got to mountain around 11:00 a.m. and started climbing. Now, I had climbed this mountain my first weekend in China which is why I knew about it ... what I didn't know is that when we climbed it, we only climbed it half-way up! Shawn and I climbed 3 hours and made it to the top! It was beautiful and well worth the work-out. We even had lunch at the top and ordered ourselves some tomato and egg, tofu, rice and chicken soup (really just broth that you drink as your beverage). At 5 p.m., our green car picked us up and we headed home. Shawn feel asleep in the car :)

We got back to the hotel and decided to go eat at a restaurant I had been to with my host family. I had saved a business card from the place so we showed it to the cab driver and were off. We ate there because the menu had pictures (a big plus when you can't read Chinese). We ordered Chinese sandwiches (much like Moo Shu Pancakes but healthier, they are on the rack in front of Shawn), some green vegetable, Chinese fried dessert sticks (actually really good) and then something we didn't know but the waitress suggested (you can see it in the picture-the yellow stuff in the plate). Big mistake (the yellow stuff)! Whatever it was looked interesting but didn't taste all that great, we think it was some kind of cooked egg/jelly thing. We tried to eat as much of it as we could but looking back, we should have just passed on the item. Because later Shawn was in the bathroom for more than half the night and I had an upset stomach during the day today ... so much for showing Shawn how great Chinese food is! I've been a lousy tour guide in that department! But the food on the Mountain was excellent and we're hoping for better luck tomorrow ;)