The next day we got up to explore the city of Ordos. There was a guy named Ben who is from BYUI and works with the Cunningham’s and he decided to come hang out with us for the day. Turns out working with the same 5 English speakers everyday is not conducive to a fulfilled social life. Who would have thunk it?
So Ordos is full of parks and plazas and statues and everything gorgeous, so we started with the main plaza. It’s about a mile long and starts at these massive government buildings and ends at the river. Apparently it was very packed that day…meaning there were maybe 200 people.But we walked around. Saw some Genghis Kahn statues and funky gardens and then ended up down by the river.
We walked around the river and all along the sides there were these huge hand carved sculpture thingamajigs(ßspell check does not put a red line under that-what a time to be alive). They were intricate and interesting, but in the end just rocks. Talking to the people and wandering through the sunshine next to the river was more fun in my book.
We grabbed a taxi back and then headed to this huge food court place. It’s a big building that’s has some chain restaurants, but mostly just a bunch of people’s random restaurants. All the restaurants that we would have on the streets in Nanjing are just in one huge building there. The food was delicious and the people loved us. What more could you ask for.
For dinner we went to this restaurant and it tasted horrible. Upon finishing, we looked at the wall and realized that it had received the lowest score possible during their last health inspection without having to be shutdown. Welcome to China.
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