Annie, Jill, me, Eleni, Alena and Phil in front of the Xian Drum Tower.
Jill, the rest of the group, and I really enjoyed riding around on the wall.
Since it was flat, it wasn’t very strenuous and it was fun.
We had to be done by 6:50 otherwise we couldn’t return our bikes so we spend through the last corner and turned them in.
We also then met up with Emre, from Turkey and Alena, from Russia.
We headed down the stairs and into the walled city so we could meet up with a few other people that were attending the conference and check out the Muslin Quarter and have some dinner.
After taking a few pictures, we were able to find Catarina, from Portugal and Sarah, from Germany.
We also met our “host” Marco, who is from Germany but has lived in Xian for the past 9 years.
He knew every nook and cranny of this city and made sure to show us a good time.
Marco was even kind enough to lead me and Jill on a hunt for good vegetarian food because the dinner place everyone else chose only had meat. We ended up bringing our food back and enjoying it with them.
We all went out to dinner and then went to a crazy restaurant named, “Mexico” since we wanted to hang out and it is one of Marco’s favorite places.
Jill and I ordered Micheladas and they were quite good, other than being served in beer glasses instead of mugs, but that is where the fun started. Our friends ordered mojitos that seemed to have been made with Sprite and vodka. Everyone else said their drinks were fine and we were more than happy with our Micheladas.
We also ordered chips and….honey mustard dressing? Yep, the chips came with that as a sauce and also with ketsup. Not really how I remember them being served when I went to Mexico, but, when in China…
Anyway, it was a great night and we had a lot of fun.
Best of all, we made a bunch of new friends, from all over the world, and were able to experience a brand new city.