Weekened adventures

On Saturday, we decided to go to the Golden Resource Mall (Asia's largest mall) to do some ice skating. This mall is just absolutely amazing! It spans a couple blocks length wise and another 2 blocks width wise. The fifth floor is the dining floor and it has round 20 restaurants with cuisines from all around China. In addition, it has an arcade room and 2-3 bubble tea kiosks. Starbucks, McDonald's, KFC and Papa John's are on the first floor. Everything else between 1 and 5th floor is a shopper's paradise, but it doesn't interest me since all I care about is eating (ask anyone from our group...haha) Ok, back to skating. The skating rink is on the second basement level, one level below the car dealership. Think about that! A car dealership underneath a shopping mall! Anyways, ice skating was very fun. Once you buy a ticket, you get to skate for 90 min (skate rental included). Getting skates was an adventure in itself since all the sizes are the same as European sizes. Once we had the sizes figured out, I still couldn't fit into my skates because I apparently have wide feet. So I had to get skates that were 3 sizes bigger. Finally, we were able to get on the ice and have some fun. It was a blast! I also thought it was really funny that there were a bunch of 6-7 year olds in full ice hockey gear zooming up and down the ice trying hit each other.

Sunday was Allison's Birthday, so we out for dinner and afterwards had cake. At dinner, we ordered this delicious eggplant dish that we devoured in 10 min. So naturally, we had to order a second plate of it. However, the chefs decided to play a joke on us and purposely (maybe...) left the seeds in the green pepper that were in the eggplant dish(just fyi...peppers that seem like ordinary bell peppers are frequently hotter than any pepper you've ever had...so if you don't watch out, everything will taste like rubber for a month) After we were done eating, we had quite a few of those green peppers left. So I came up with the stupid idea of spinning the "glass spinner" (often times tables at Chinese tables are round, and have a glass spinner in the middle so that the food can be rotated around the table for everyone to share), and whoever the plate of peppers pointed to had to eat a green pepper filled with seeds. The spinner pointed to a few people and finally made its way in my direction. After eating my pepper (it wasn't that bad) I gave the spinner a big push....and along the way...it somehow knocked over quite a few dishes and tea cups and spilled some sauce/juice on Nicole's skirt.

I forgot to mention that we've played our second soccer match on Sunday as well. Every Sunday there are a whole bunch of students from the University playing recreationally. Spencer "the Hattrick" Leong dominated the game like Cristiano Ronaldo did in the Champions League Final. It was just a great overall performance! Mr. Hattrick even promised more goals in the near future. Also, Melody "Gerrard" Campbell showed her smoothness and agility on the pitch by defending the back end of the field like no other player. Her toughness and leadership will certainly lead to a contract extension from FC Liverpool.