The night before leaving we ate at Mandarin in Toronto. It’s been a while since I went to a restaurant with a time limit. It is a buffet, reminded me of Rainforest Cafe in their decor, each room had different animal themes, we were in the bird room with 2 huge fake birds hanging down from their ceiling, they had a bird enclosure with real birds. All good food, though I was looking forward to green tea ice cream and they didn’t have that.
We flew Hainan Airlines. What I didn’t like was on-line it allowed us to change our seat assignments that morning, but they wouldn’t acknowledge it at the airport, even though it took our old seats away, so now we weren’t all sitting by each other. Fortunately people traded with us so we could sit together. When we were boarding I got my first reminder of the screaming Chinese person. You are never too old to ack like a toddler and yell at service workers because you are upset. Definitely a more diverse movie selection. I watched an Italian movie with English subtitles called “Look Up”, a strange movie about the rooftops in Rome. And a funny Japanese movie with English subtitles about a girl who gets fired from her job and then finds a job as a promoter/office woker with a wrestling company and her out of work actor boyfriend gets jealous. The best part of dinner was the roll and chocolate cake. I always travel with sea bands, and thankful I bought them for the kids too. Still had 2 get sick on the descent, don’t think they got enough sleep. First time I actually ever say them spraying the chemicals on the floors, they had on masks and gloves. What can you do?
Once arrived, a friendly kiosk fingerprinted us, picked up luggage and stood in the short line of foreigners with only 1 customs official refingerprinted the adults and facial scans of everyone. I didn’t remind them they didn’t scan my face! Then we can exit and look for Yeye. We easily find him. There was some miscommunication on where our driver would be that caused an embarrassing distraction. And then I sleep the hour ride to their home since it was dark out. Woke up 2 blocks from their house and it has changed a lot, lots more fluorescent lights around the businesses. We arrived 10:30P.M., there are still families walking around. Had dinner, watched some TV and went to bed. They still have Boonie Bears on! This episode had a polar bear with antlers.
The kids were up around 5. I was up by 6. Yeye took the boys to get fresh soy milk, yotel and baoza. Ethan said I think I need to have soy milk everyday now. I chose boxed yogurt drink. It was plain but very sweet. The kids wanted to explore the garden area then we walked up 26 flights of stairs to look out the roof. The roof has been locked and we can not access it. The stairwells are well used, there was a desk set up out there among other storage.
Today was all about getting things done, making sure electronics, phones, bank cards got set up. My husband insisted I upgrade to his old iPad. I am not happy, it’s set up with all his apps and I can’t get the ones I used to work like they did on mine. Including how to add pictures to this blog. So that is forthcoming. Kids crashed at 4, woke for a light dinner and were back out until 4 the next morning.
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