First stop of the day is the silk selling place - as with all the other selling places, there is a quick demonstration of how the silk is pulled from the cocoons before they go into the sales presentation.
There's a lot of interest in our tour group for the pulled silk blankets and quilt sets and stuff but our family and the Boys' family remain unmoved.
Instead the Boys end up sleeping on the demo bed. LOL. FOREVER.
And like son, like mum because our mum and their mum end up sitting down on the floor to chat about nails with the sales assistants who give up using their sales tactics on our matriarchs
Then it's off to TianJin (天津) for lunch
The metropolis is located over an hour away from Beijing city, and is apparently known for its two streets - Antique Culture Street and Food Street (古文化街、食品街)
We stopped first at the culture street, where we got free time to shop around
It was a cool little street, with lots of antique stalls and cobblestone streets. Most cool was the stuff on the floor from the street vendors, lots of bits and pieces.
I will also like to point out at this time that it was really really good in TianJin, like...subzero.
So cold so cold...
Then we were bussed over to food street which was weirdly a plaza like thing instead of an outside street like the name suggests
There were quite a few food souvenir shops and also some local delicacies
Instead, all the kids rushed to maccas - I ate taro pie. It was SO good.
Then it was bus to dinner place, which was supposed to be known for its dumplings.
We literally got fed like...8 plates of dumplings (different types, but they tasted really really similar!)
By this time, Isaac super tired and sick and was falling asleep at table - poor thing :(
All the beer --> beer belly --> sigh...
After dinner it was back to hotel
Watched Shrek: forever after with isaac and it was cute and lolsy
Fell asleep before shower and ended up waking back up at 1:30am and watching the second half of Devil's advocate before sleeping. Man, that movie is weird and I wouldn't recommend watching it before you sleep especially if you have to wake up at freaking 6:30 the next morning -.-.
donna.
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