Dim sum with ovaries?

(Tracy). We started off the day leaving the hotel at 10am in order to meet our friend at noon. We thought we had mastered the subway the night before and we succesfully purchased subway reusable cards. The subway is the easy part, but if the place you are looking for is a street or two away, then it becomes a little more challenging. Needless to say it took 1 1/2 hours to get there. Otherwise it would take about 20 minutes, but we had fun doing it in the 100% humidity.

We then traveled to Yu Gardens with our new friend Kelly. We braved the crowds and learned a few new words - thanks to our friend. And yes my friends, it is true...they actually market their dim sum that way (with ovary and intestine of card?? huh?) We also learned 4 new mandarin words today...for "metro" (aka subway), straight ahead, left and right. I don't know how to spell them, so I will spare you. We also went to the Jade Buddha temple and went to their tea room. Their monks grow the herbs and then you can buy the tea. So we got a 2 month supply of a tea that helps you relax and good for skin allergies and the other one we got is to help lower BP and reduce cholesterol (For Will). She gave us a list of 10 herbs/roots so we can go back to that place or ask other tea places for specific things to help with migraines, arthritis, etc... We don't know if it works, but the tea tasted good! Will said he was going to do a blog this afternoon of our dinner adventure with his co-workers on Friday. All I have to entice you to read on is 2 words DUCK TONGUE!