Some of the things that are going on in Kaifeng involve boxes, but it's not just Kaifeng. In the New Year Spirit, almost every store owner who has an open shop (not all do), have ordered huge boxes of gifts. It's like those jam collections or meat or cheese collections you see at Christmas, the ones that Mom could not be convinced to bring me (although, in retrospect, that's probably okay). They contain either booze, fruit (apples, peaches, clementines, dragon's eyes, dragonfruit), some vegetables, crackers, or soft snack cakes. Some contain ramen. And these boxes just line the sides of streets.
So as we were walking through Kaifeng to get to the Iron Pagoda (it's closest to the campus), we passed many of these people. We went into the park, saw the pagoda, saw the lake, saw the bonsai tree garden, and went downtown for lunch at the buffet. Jeff was there, and Mom talked a lot to him. When the buffet was over and we were filled (so much meat, I love the buffet), we went home, picking up water on the way.
Later that night we watched a movie called "The Forbidden Kingdom". Except it was the Chinese dub, which dubbed all the parts in China but left the English parts for America. That was amusing. We think the actor looks like my sister's current boyfriend.
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