Torben went to the nanny on Friday because we were going to hit the Costco and Ikea on Friday afternoon with Yunche and Grace...many things got in the way and in the end it was 4:30 and we decided to go and get foot massages instead. I’d been wanting to try out the foot massage place since we got here and Yunche said he visits the place at least once a month “it’s good for your health” so I was certainly up for it. The foot massage is really much more than a foot massage although the foot part of it took most of the time. It starts with a nice foot soak bath while some trained professionally gives you a back, neck and head massage - this all lasts about 20 minutes then it’s on to the feet – and that all took around 45 minutes. Because we were all together and Yunche really wanted to go Tim sort of had to. The guys are really rough on the feet unless you tell them to go easy but Tim just figured he had to tough it out. He said it was pretty painful, mine was very nice. One of the best things is i can’t speak Chinese so I didn’t have to even mutter a word to the guy! I hate small talk during massages. I was still pretty disappointed though, I had my heart set on Ikea. The contingency plan was to go to Ikea on Saturday morning but then I woke up with a sore throat and decided the day would be better spent in bed – or at least the better part of the morning in bed. Since Costco and Ikea were no longer on the table as Costco is in Kauosling, about 45 minutes away and too far to go without a vehicle we decided to spend the afternoon at RT-Mart, a very large store next to our apartment. Although I have never been in a Walmart, I imagine it must be similar – one whole floor is just cheap crap and then the lower floor is food. We got a few necessary items. I am not crazy about shopping there but it is AC’ed so that is very nice. It is crowded and it is also difficult to tell what anything is because most everything is written in Chinese but the worst part is many items have some English on them but not really enough to give you any sort of understanding of what the item is. For example there is an entire isle of what looks like milk and some descriptions are all Chinese and then others just say things like ‘high quality” - how is that helpful, high quality what?? I bought what I thought was tofu the other day, and it looked just like Tofu but it was not tofu, in fact I still have no idea what the hell it was, it was nasty though. Every time we walk outside it is something new, every time we walk around the corner something exciting is there. Yesterday we walked around the corner from RT and there was my favorite tea place (it is a chain). I go and get tea after I go to the gym. Oh yeah, I joined a gym – that place is a trip, more on that later. For dinner I wanted to try out the Mexican place called ‘Mexico to go’ not far from out place but I walked down there and it was closed, so I hit the Indian place instead. It was a pretty mellow day.
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