Tuesday the 2nd of January was a pretty laid back day for the two of us, since Aaron had to go in to work. We hung around the house, watching TV, catching up on our blog entries, and eating snacks! We met Aaron at his work place when he was done and headed for dinner at Pizza Hut (we definitely enjoyed eating real pepperoni!) And here we have our daily digest of “Mock the Bad Use of English”… We found this gem at our table at Pizza Hut….not sure exactly what expression they were trying to get at, but it sure is funny. Next time you want to go out to Pizza Hut, tell your friends, “Let’s Yummy!”

We were able to observe a very interesting phenomenon at Pizza Hut. While Pizza Hut has a salad bar, you are only allowed to fill up your plate once. For people wanting to get the most out of their money, there is an elaborate salad-creation technique which yields incredible results. We thought we had a good system back at Trinity piling up our salad plates, but nothing compares to this! This is not an unusual thing either, almost every other table in the restaurant had a huge plate of salad! One person will get the salad and then everyone will share it. In this picture you can’t even see the bowl, it is completely obscured by a wall of watermelon slices. Aaron went to another table to get this picture, hence the cute Chinese baby in the background. We enjoyed a great meal together, pigging out on the pizza!

For the last part of the evening, we ventured out to a Spa, yes, the boys included! Aaron’s friend had told him about a “cheap” nice place to get massages. What a place; it looked like a hotel. Men and women were separated at the entrance and while the boys went to have a traditional Chinese massage, I went into the Ladies’ Spa. First of all the varied spa “menu” made it hard for me to decide, (although I stayed away from the scary ones like “cervix treatment”!). I knew the boys’ massage would be about 90 minutes, so I picked a “milk-honey firming bath” and an aromatic body massage. Since no one there spoke English, and I still hadn’t picked up any Mandarin, I just followed people around! I had a cute Chinese girl who was looking after me. The bath and massage were just great. Once I was done I ventured upstairs to the “lobby” clad in the “pajamas” they had dressed me in. The Lobby is a place where both men and women can relax together; there were hundreds of lazy-boy recliners with TV’s attached, computers, games, a buffet, karaoke rooms…..it was incredible! I couldn’t find the boys when I got there, so I settled into a recliner, ordered a pineapple juice and sought after any English speaking channel! After a while, I saw the boys, (oh so handsome in their pajamas) and we got ready to leave. It wasn’t quite as cheap as we thought, but it was a great experience. Our shoulders were a little sore from the intense massages, but that wore off in a day or two! We made our way home on the new metro line which ended up taking forever, but we had books to read and games to play! All in all, a very relaxing and enjoyable day.