Just Like I Thought.

Day: 253

When I said yesterday that most likely nothing would take place today, I was right.   I spent most of the morning in some mix of being on the internet, eating, napping or reading (pretty much what I do at home).  Finally 3pm came around and I set out across town to see if I could find Felicia and Shauna, the two girls who put this trip together for the next two weeks.

We took an obligatory “getting to know you” stroll for a few kilometers through Xining and its markets and finally settled down at a hot pot. A couple hours of boiling our food in a bucket of excessively spicy soup mixture in the middle of our table and drinking beer (at least on my part) were the most exciting part of my day.  If I was an older man (like I will be next week) I probably would have had a night of horrible heartburn, as it was my face stayed flushed red until I went to sleeep later at night.