Well, I am proud to say that we DID NOT eat at this place in the photo (but thought you might like to see the spread of the Colonel anyway–he reaches even to Qinzhou these days…which is now 3.1 million people–when we were here six years ago it was only 990,000!). After I sent Mark and Savannah out for food last night, and tried to post, (although Mark had to do some wrestling with WordPress when he got back because it was up to its usual antics of not letting us log in–the usual shenanigans–but my tech-wizard husband prevailed against the misbehaving WordPress) they came back with some AWESOME beef noodles and some dumpling soup. Man! we sure do love the food in China–you just can’t get it like this in the US (except maybe at a couple of places in Chinatown)!

So they went to this place across the street that Mark thought looked good (not sure what the name is) and Mark said he knew the word for dumplings. But noodles was another story. Apparently he was trying to describe them (I can just imagine the flailing and gesturing that was going on to try to describe these noodles, since he told me before he went that he would pantomime if need be!). Then he had to let them know that he wanted them to go–which became another round go Charades. But in the end they got him what he needed and he said they were so nice and it was FAR less than we would have paid for food in the hotel, and it was awesome. I love my husband!

After we ate, Savannah said she was going to just “rest” after which she put her head between two pillows (which was a little strange because it looked like a Savannah head sandwich) and promptly fell asleep. So we all got to bed around 7:30–not really a problem since I’m sure our bodies could use a little extra sleep fending of the inevitable onslaught it faced while flying for so many hours. We’re up now at 5:00 a.m. and ready to go. Not really that bad for jet lag considering I usually wake up at that time everyday anyway (I promptly go back to bed, but I do wake up at that time nevertheless! LOL!)

Well, that’s all for now, but I’m sure we will have many stories to tell after our day today. We will be traveling back to stay at a hotel in Nanning (the Majestic–for those of you who would want to know) so that when we get up tomorrow morning we will be close to the airport and our early flight, which leaves at 8:10–not that early, but we have to get there a couple of hours early).

I think that Mark is going to post some photos to the photo section too. He has a great one of some of the city of Qinzhou and an early morning one showing a little of the mild lightning clouds we saw this morning. Also some videos maybe (I know he took some, not sure which ones he’ll post though).

Love you all,
Tomorrow we get Jade!
Melissa and family

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