Chicken in a Bucket 29.06.11

DanDan's Mother was given a bird that one of the old women that lived in the Building complex had caught and felt it would be fun for Leon, it had a string tied around its leg to prevent it from flying away.

Leon was not too interested and we agreed to let it fly away, After that we headed out looking for a travel club my wife had heard about in the area as she wanted to go to the Royal Sea World in Fu Xun, no luck but I did see a Chicken in a bucket and it wasn't even KFC.

Found a small place that had He Fan just across from our Building complex.

Went to visit DanDans Lao Gu, she had invited us and we had eaten Yang Rou Chuan Er with her family before, Its where Leon got a taste for it. She had moved house and the new place was very modern and reminded me of some Irish developments I had seen right down to the shamrocks.

It was a while before the charcole was ready for the meat and there sure was a lot of meat. Er Gu arrived with her grand child, which was a happy little 16 month boy, he could walk and would get into everything and when his nanny tried to stop him he would throw a tantrum but over all he did not go near the fire and would laugh at everything.

After food it was getting late and Lao Gu's Daughter and her husband said they would bring Leon to somewhere he could play games, Chinese is a very vague language and you never get the full picture so We had no idea about where we where going. We took a double decker bus which was a first for me in China. Even though it was getting dark outside the bus keeps its inside lights off to save electricity and save money. I also found a very big IKEA while I passed it on the bus.

We ended up in a Da Jia Ting on the other side of the city in a place called xi tie. Leon went fishing and we ended to night in KFC eating Ice Cream untill mosquitoes started falling from the air conditioning, then we got the hell out of there.