Saturdays Rock

I need to be updating this blog daily to fit all of the new things I'm learning or seeing! Ok, let's see:

At the awesome little upstairs market that I mentioned in a previous post, we were eating our noodles (pronounced chow mi-en... which means fried noodle... Chow Mein... good one America) and some Chinese ladies came over and corrected our technique.

You learn to love fruit in China. Every fruit stand brings happiness. All the food is mostly starch bathed in oil, which is good for a while, but you body quickly realizes the lack of fruit and raw veggies and starts to crave them all the time!

We found a tiny hole in the wall store with thousands of DVDs for super cheap. Even the new releases are only 2 American dollars. And yes, I'm sure they are all pirated...

All my life I've been told to avoid city alleyways, but here that is where all the delicious street food is! Basically our goal now is to find where the best street food is at.

The city streets are line with tons and tons of mini shops. This one was a 3 level toy shop just packed with so many different kinds and varieties of toys.

Saturday we visited the Presidential Palace, which was SUPER neat! People stare at us all the time, but this is the first time I realized how... different we are to the Chinese because people would line up to take pictures with us or of us. Mid-picture, I got a picture of just a few of the people who were watching us having our pictures taken. I could get used to being like a celebrity.

This darling old lady stopped me on the street just to tell me that I'm beautiful. Awww, made my day!

Underground markets/malls are the bomb. This one is down town and it's called the Fashion Lady, and holy cow. They had so much, it was just so much!

Now this is one thing in China that I think America should start doing: the stop lights all have a countdown to when the light will change. It is so awesome! I think this would be a good idea everywhere.