Tonight we are going to see an acrobatic show. Last night Ba told me how to get there and then from there to the restaurant. I was worried why he was telling me, when my mother-in-law was to be coming with us.
Well most mornings I let the kids eat first while I get ready and then I come eat and clean up. Well someone must’ve woken up on the wrong side of the bed because there is a lot of yelling between the adults and geared toward my kids. Normally they put lots of bowls out filled with baoza, fruit, fried egg, left over dinner and let us choose what we want. Well today they wanted to decide what the kids eat and they must’ve wanted quiet as he kept telling the kids to “shut up”. Mama bear getting really upset I go and can tell someone is power tripping(having an adult tantrum) over trying to get a kid to eat part of an egg he is gagging on. The kid goes to throw up, is crying. There is so much yelling, I take my plate and all of us are in my bedroom to get away. He comes in to yell at the kid before storming out to take the trash. I pray the kids didn’t understand whatever he was saying.
I go to clean up and throw out that egg. He comes back, sees no egg, looks in the trash and starts yelling at my mother-in-law. I say “I threw it out. Really all this over an egg? He eats everything else and is gagging on one egg. He doesn’t need to eat it.” I’m shaking and tell the kids grab your stuff we are leaving now. We will be home before 3 in time to leave for the show. Nainai tells the kid to apologize before leaving. Later I explained how even though he didn’t do anything wrong, the other person was clearly not rational and you may need to apologize to calm the other person and diffuse the situation.
When we get ready to leave it’s been decided we will take a car and Ba will visit his sister and we can meet them at a different restaurant than we discussed the previous night. Okay. When we get to the theatre, the parking lot is packed with busses. I feel a sense of dejavu in this craziness as we are standing on the steps, waiting for our tickets. Then it’s lots of tour groups and people pushing down a hallway into a different entryway until we are let in and a mad scramble for seats as you pay for a section but not assigned seats. One of the workers grabs my ticket and points to the front middle seats marked VIP. We ended up in the 5th row!
After we sit down my, two guys sit next to us. They are from Argentina and just got here today. He asked how much we paid for our ticket, they worry if their ticket is real. I advise my father-in-law bought them discounted on-line, so I don’t know. But if their ticket was fake they would not be inside. Most likely the person who sold them the ticket got it at a discounted price and had them pay full price. But not knowing how to get a discounted price or at the window he wouldn’t paid full price anyway. He told me their horror story the classic scam of being told the Forbidden City is sold out and being taken to tea. Luckily they bought the tickets from said scammers already and had no other cash to be taken advantage of. I gave them some tips and where they should go and don’t get into any rickshaw. Good luck guys.
The show has umbrella balancers, a yo-yo act, jugglers, spinning in the air on a double wheel, 6 bikers in a ball. It was really good show putting the kids on the edge of their seats. After we took the bus to meet at the restaurant we meet Gu Nainai at. Only Ba shows up, the others are too tired. We have Peking duck again! A good ending to the day.
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