Day 10 - More Sightseeing plus an adventure....

The usual ... breakfast, sightseeing, free afternoon. Breakfast was the usual, I tried Congee today. No biggee. All the other babies are gone (those familes traveled to Guangzhou), there are just a few left now. Today we went to the Kaifu Temple. We saw tons of budha's. Aaron got fortune told by a monk at the 500 Budha exhibit. He should have good luck and be successful if he worked hard. Also he would have temper tantrums sometimes. After the temple visit, we were determined to get to a McDonalds (Kevin's request)..... this is the adventure part. So our guide wrote the address of the McDonalds on a piece of paper and the Hotel address on another piece of paper. The only way to get to the Micky D's was by taxi and since we don't know Chinese, we needed to show the paper to the taxi driver and hope for the best. One more problem, we needed 2 taxis since they only seat 3 per taxi and we were going with our neighbor (Dad and son). So we made it there. Luckily, the girl at the counter spoke some English and it was a piece of cake at Micky Ds. The Quarter pounder came with Cucumbers instead of Pickles and some kind of spicy sauce which was pretty good. Now the tough part! When we were at the hotel, the hotel staff got us setup in the cab but we were "out in the wild" so we had to get a cab. It took awhile since we were competing with locals but we managed eventually. All in all, another small step in conquering Changsha. Another 5 years and we'll be there. To bad we only have a couple more days. This afternoon we bowled 3 games in the hotel. The score isn't important because it wasn't to hot, just good enough to beat Kevin. Tonight, its back to JoNos for dinner! Were regulars now.