Day 2 in Xiamen - Chinese cart ride

Cleaning, unpacking, and exploring were the order of the day. We got all of our lovely bread, nutella, and cereal out for breakfast, and then it occurred to us that we didn't know how to eat those things with chopsticks! Not a piece of silverware to be found in this house. While cleaning we quickly realized we needed cleaning supplies, so decided to venture out to a mall that's about a 20 minute walk to have lunch and see what we could find. The mall is very modern, built just a few years ago, and has lots of stores that you would recognize like, Esprit and H&M.

We opted for lunch in a Chinese restaurant. We had green beans with pork which was delicious, rice, which is always good, and then this chicken dish -- or at least we thought we ordered a chicken dish... 

When it came, we thought maybe it was rabbit, but then we realized there were wings! Pretty much it was skin and bones. We never really found anything to eat on it. Kynza declared that she was becoming a vegetarian. To quell her strange-food anxiety, we swooshed her a few doors down the mall to Dairy Queen for an Oreo blizzard. Sanity restored! 

We worked our way down to the grocery store on the bottom floor of the mall. It was very crowded and very noisy! We found a mop, dust clothes, a scrub brush, hangers, soap, and dozens of other little necessities. When we got out of the mall, we were loaded with way more than we could carry home in sweltering humid heat. So we paid this guy who has a moped connected to a cart to take us! 
Kynza and Christine are riding in the cart here (I'm sitting across from them), and then they're paying the driver when we got out in the road where our apartment is.