Day 136 - Tracking a Package

Day 136 – Tracking a Package

We had made some tentative plans to have lunch with Eva and some of her colleagues and then go to the post office to try and see if they had any packages for us, but they got tied up with the grades they were having to enter and all the work involved with that, so we decided to go to the bakery store and to Carrefour so that we could get the things we needed.  Just as we were done at the bakery store, Eva called us to say that she was at the post office and asked if we had the tracking number for the package.  We didn’t, but we figured if we hurried home (after stopping at Carrefour for some milk) we might be able to catch Seth and Carolyn before they went to bed.

We got back here at 1:58 p.m. (10:58 p.m. in Utah), and immediately called Seth on Facetime.  Fortunately, they were not in bed yet and they were able to give us the tracking number on the package.  We texted that to Eva and when she had a break, she called the post office.  They said they had a package there with that number, but the address had been damaged to where they couldn’t read it and so it was just sitting there in the post office.  We are hoping to go there tomorrow and get it… maybe…  (I will insert here, that with the tracking number still readable on it, they should have been able to look up the address that it was sent to, but that didn’t happen…)

Wayne and Libby Clarke were going to eat at the canteen this evening and try to get the rest of their meal credits used up, so they invited us to join them at 5 p.m.  The Pace’s came also and we had a nice meal.  We can use the meal credits to get drinks; bottles of juice, water and pop, so with the meal, Wayne wanted to order a lot of juice.  I told him how many bottles you could get with each meal credit and he decided to get 21 bottles of orange juice.  The girls taking the order looked at us with such astonishment, that I am still chuckling over the incredulous looks on their faces.  Normally, the Chinese don’t drink cold drinks with their meals, and they don’t drink much juice with a meal either. (They have a thing about not eating cold things at certain times and hot things at other times.  It’s complicated…) They make a call to somewhere and soon they bring this case of 21 bottles of orange juice to the table.  After we had a bottle of juice each for dinner, Wayne and Libby took the rest home with them.

After dinner, they all came to our apartment and we played “Road Trip USA.”  David had incredible luck and won two times and would have won more, except we started ganging up on him with skip a turns and reverses.  It was a fun evening.