Ni-Hao from China

Today we went to a Chinese wedding. It was interesting, there were fireworks inside, a smoke machine, bubbles, snow, dry ice, confetti and a soundtrack by Queen. The highlight was getting in a minor fender bender on the way there. Later in the day, Mel and I got foot massages right down the street from the apartment. Our masseurs were two twenty year old kids that had great smiles and were super eager to try out their English. I think they had as much fun as we did and they made us promise to come back tomorrow for the full body experience. For dinner we ate street vendor style from a cart with more vegetables on skewers than I have ever seen. You choose your skewers and they put them of the BBQ. Between four of us we ate about sixty skewers of garlic, 3 kinds of mushrooms, eggplant, green beans, potatoes, huge Anaheim peppers, cauliflower, shrimp, pork and chicken and we didn't even put a dent in their selection. Total cost for the meal including two pitchers of beer was equivalent to seven dollars.