Buddhas and Lunch

Today we went to the Longhua Temple. It was so cool because there was all over the place solid gold statues of Buddhas. There were Buddhas of happiness, babies, wealth, Northern, Western, Eastern, and Southern kings and they each held something. The Northern king held a sword for freedom, the eastern king held a musical instrument represent peace, the western king stands for protection, and the southern king stood for all human beings. The thing that was most interesting to me was that in front of the statues there were people that would burn incence but they would blow out the fire and go to every Buddha and bow with the burned incence in their hand and in would be smoking. It was also surprising that they have different rooms for different Buddhas. It looked to me that they put the bigger Buddhas in the back and smaller in the front and the really tiny ones on the side.

After we went to the Longhua Temple we went to a really big shopping mall. There they had many places to shop for clothes, books, and restaurants. We picked a restaurant that right smack dab in the middle of the bar there was a sushi stand. But not any old sushi stand this one stretched all the way around the bar and it had all kinds of sushi. I had 1 tiny plate of crab salad, 1 tiny plate of crab sticks, and 2 tiny plates of crab and egg wrapped up in one. It was so good. and then to top of our day we took all the escalators all the way down because we were on the 6 floor and when we got to the bottom we went out the door and caught a taxi home. All in all, it was a pretty good day.