On this day, we discovered we were going to see a cousin. The cousin had been married three days before, and she and her husband were coming back to her hometown. We were served a very nice meal, with dishes like turtle soup, cold chicken, wasabi plant, and fried cicadas.
I partook in all the dishes, though I had to be convinced to try the cicadas. Mom did not partake of their delicious. When it's all said and done, I guess, cicada is no different than shrimp- it comes in a shell, there's meat inside, and it has odd legs that poke out as you try to eat it. The end.
Also in the restaurant Mom made friends with the baby who'd originally stated she was scared of the foreign people. By the end, they were both playing peek-a-boo.
The cousin lived in the village, so Alexis allowed us time to see the village before we left. It was very small, and one old woman asked whose children we were- thinking the only reason we would visit is because we were family. We laughed.
Then we drove back to Kaifeng, had dinner with Adam and Allan, and I watched Alexis go to take the SAT in Hong Kong. It was a decent trip. Along the way we also saw Ben and made plans for the next morning.
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