Day 10

Day 10 began with a trip to Chen's Ancestral Lineage Hall and The Yun Tai Garden Park. If you check out a couple of the pictures, the park actually looks rather freaky in a Johnny Depp Willy Wonka sort of way. Because of the heavy rain, our trip was short lived. We did get back for a most excellent lunch of homemade rice noodles (literally made and cooked right in front of us) with red pepper hot oil sauce (4 out of 5 stars on the so hot my nose is snotting and I can't feel my lips or tongue scale) and sesame cashews with pickled cucumbers (also hot!!!). We were also introduced to our new guide Lucia, who is great and will be with us the rest of the way (Lucia's new van driver looks like Mr. Chow from the Hangover...kind of talks like him to...bet I call him Mr. Chow at least five times before my stay is done here). Elvin had some official duty with the Asian games that he needed to tend to...either that or my Hong Kong feet were just too much for him to handle (Lucia is taking me for baking soda tomorrow and she also knows where to get some good mint!!) AJ has become quite a hit in the hotel. She is making lots of friends with the other adopted children in the hotel (There are a bunch) and the hotel staff cannot get enough of her. I was walking with AJ and Robin at breakfast today, and one of the staff members pointed and said, the poor girl, it will be ok soon. I thought she was talking about AJ's cleft, but in reality, she was talking about Robin's green hair. I have seen small children point at Robin, scream "ahhhh....Godzilla" and run. I have also heard others want her to use her superpowers as the Green Lantern to end crime in Guangzhou. For dinner tonight, we went to Lucy's...again, and ate in the Linen Room (that's right Tony, they named an entire room after you.) After finishing dinner, the waiter kept promoting their homemade apple pie. He was persistent, so we ordered a piece...quite possibly the worst excuse for apple pie EVER!! It tasted like Kugel with apples and raisins (trust me on this, I had a real live jewish girl sample it and she agreed...although when we left I heard some guy in the back room say "honey, don't order the apple pie, look what it did to that girl's hair!) These hair jokes never get old!!!! So, after having an insatiable hunger for apple pie, I went on a mission, and discovered a small slice of heaven at The White Swan deli. As I was devouring it, AJ looked at me with those pathetic "please daddy please, give me some pie" eyes, and I decided that it was time, time to see if she was a real Roberts...time to see if the girl liked the pie of all pies, APPLE Pie. Well, I will let the pictures speak for themselves. She is a true Roberts!!! Until tomorrow...