Saturday, July 7, 2012

Chendu

Yet another place to love in China. It's a little like New York but the pace is like Walsh, CO. Our guide is Bobby and he has a wonderful reputation. He says there are three things to remember about Chendu...pandas, spicy food, and friendly people.

When we arrived we went to the hotel which was pretty fancy. As we traveled through the city, I kept my eye out for a Mcdonalds. We had an hour before we had to meet back down in the lobby for dinner and since Keara and I haven't ate much of substance, we took the opportunity to run to Mcdonalds. Downing a hamburger and fries and chicken nuggets for Keara I felt like we had our first real meal. :)

A dinner sichuan style was then served. Zeb is adventureouse and most of the kids are as well so they filled their stomachs.

Next we headed out to see a Chinese Opera. It was held outside and they served tea. The show was more variety in style with music, opera, puppetry, and mask changing. The hand puppets and the mask changing were pretty darn cool. You could also get a massage during the event and they used these interesting tea kettles whith very long spouts to replenish the water in the tea cups.

Keara has still been running a fever and kept complaining about her ears so it was obvious she wasn't getting better. We decided we needed to see a doctor. Both Nacha and Bobby went out of their way to help us. Bobby called ahead to see if he could get a doctor. Nacha preferred we didn't have to go to the hospital because she said that it would be very different for us. When got to the hotel, the doctor was not available and I explained that we could use some amoxicillian as I suspected strep. Apparently a prescription for this is not needed (which I doubted for a short time). Bobby got the Asst. Manager for the hotel to allow the bellboy to make a run to the pharmacy. Sure enough he showed up at our door with the medicine. Who would have thunk? We did have some other medicine but it was said to conflict with the one she was already on. Anyway, she has been taking it and feeling better as the time passes.

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