Home-style breakfast today meant yesterday's restaurant dinner leftovers, hard-boiled eggs with crushed raw garlic to dip them in, bread (just for us), pickles and rice porridge with bits in. Yujin had us scheduled, so we headed off to visit the dam that his father used to work at. Very pretty - square fishing nets and what look like floating sheds or very small houses dotted all over the water. Then off to the Zhous' favourite restaurant again - we passed on the dog and on the raw garlic but the rest was good!
Then home for a rest and to play with pois for a while, until it was time to watch Mrs Zhou force-feed the dying puppy (not in the photos) she's trying to save for the second day running - a spectacle that this time reduced Heather and Rosa to tears: so I took them off to cry for a bit. Melissa grabbed the cards and went to play Go Fish with Cui-Cui, and the three of us had a few minutes of noticing how much there is to get our heads round as white people in the "developing world" (not that there's much less for Mo to get her head round!).
Then back to the lake, where we were taken in and fed by some transport magnate with the biggest private house we've seen, overlooking a corner of the lake that he rents for his use, and with a very fine cook indeed: lake fish and shrimps, and five different egg dishes in our honour! We skimmed stones for a while, and the lady of the house (who looked like Cher) took us for a boat ride.
On the way home we passed the inevitable result of general road anarchy - a bike under a lorry (and Yujin said also a body and lots of blood). If it wasn't for the excellent Chinese law which declares that when a car or lorry hits a person it's always the drivers fault, no matter what, there'd be a lot more of this.
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