The first thing we did was lunch. Chengdu is in the Sichuan Province and is well known for it's spicy food. They took it easy on us foreigners and only served a couple of spicy dishes. Since I like spicy food, I found it all to be very good.
After lunch we visited a Chengdu Brocade Embroidery Museum. It was the same drill, a lot of interesting facts about this type of cloth is produced, which is very amazing. Followed by a tour through their museum and then ample opportunity to buy your Brocade and Embroidery.
Finally we arrived at the hotel. We like this one much better than the one in Xi'an. it is right downtown. After checking in, we walked around town some. Kirsten and Patrick got drinks at a Starbucks and the girls got ice cream at a McDonalds. All the comforts of home. :-)
We also visited a Chinese grocery to pick up some snacks and a Chinese department store to get a couple of umbrellas for tomorrow. These types of stores are very interesting. There is at least one employee at each end of every aisle to help you with your purchases. I have never seen so many employees in a grocery store.
In the evening, we went to Hot Pot Dinner. This was optional and our family was the only one to participate. The meal was very good. We all enjoyed it immensely.
Here is Patrick before he tried a piece of on of the peppers:
Here he is trying to eat enough rice to cool his mouth. Notice the color in his face?
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