fun day at floraland

This McDonald's is opening up right across the street from our school. I think it is going to open on the 22nd. It is the first free-standing/drive-through McDonald's in Chengdu. We are all excited for it to open. We'll all be fatter teachers next year :)

Today I met up with some of our students at a fun park called Floraland. I took the 703 bus to get there. It took about 35 minutes from school to Floraland on the bus. We had a great day. The park was really fun and beautiful. It was like a small rendition of Disney World. There were different "countries" that you could visit. Two of the girls and I tried to tandem bike around. We were hilarious. The bike didn't have brakes that worked, or very reliable steering. It took us a long time to figure out how to ride together. We kept falling off and running into things (and nearly people many many times) Because we couldn't stop or steer, we just kept yelling and beeping at people to get out of our way.

As foreigners, we constantly have people coming up to us asking for our picture, or just taking it without asking. All day long, there were people taking pictures of us. This is very normal, and we kind of get used to it, although sometimes it does get kind of annoying.

Unfortunately, the park didn't have any yummy hamburger places or tacos or great icecream shops (you know, parks in America always have great food). I did have some pretty good spicy beef rice noodles, chocolate milk tea with these funny little flour balls that sit at the bottom of your cup, yummy fair popcorn (that doesn't taste anything like popcorn in America, but is still yummy), and a few other yummy snacks. It's funny how your taste buds adjust to the country you live in.