jack and the magic pea

so i thought that my saturday was just going to be enjoying a day of nothing.. so i'm sitting on the couch and its about 7:45 and callie comes in and says that if we want to Lucy will take us to this cafe. Lucy had told us about this cafe because there's a man who owns a lamborghini that goes there all the time, so we've wanted to go for forever.
so we leave at 8 and its right next to the 5 star hotel, thats right next to the supermarket we always go to.
it's called jack and the magic pea and its actually a sweet little place. it has a certain starbucks-esque to it. It was loungy but also a restuarant. They have alllll sorts of drinks from coffee to tea to papaya milk (lucy's favorite, she gets it everytime) and frios (i'll explain those in a bit). and for food they have everything from toast, to french fries to sandwiches to shark fin soup to ribs and duck chin. its actually a very very upscale place. but because its china everything is SOO cheap and makes me love it even more.
so i get a strawberry frio which is like a strawberry ice blended drink and a chicken sandwich and it only cost me 26 yuan, which is roughly 3 and a half dollars. see what i mean? awesome.
okay but the best part of the whole outing was near the end a couple walks in, a chinese woman and a white man and they sit at the booth behind us.
so callie turns around and just starts talking to them. callie i've come to find out is just a people person. whoever she meets she automatically becomes friends with them and its like they've known each other for forever. she knows exactly what to say and doesnt make the conversation awkward and she's way funny and just welcoming i guess. idk but she's become my hero. so she's still talking to this couple and she's a tranlator and he's from Naples ITALY!! he's about 60 he said and not married to the chinese lady but he had that gorgeous italian accent. mmhmm. he's here on business for his company Mito. but somehow in the whole thing the lady got callie's number because they're coming back in march for business and if they call us up we're going back and having drinks with them and the lady gave callie a plush eeyore? i'm telling you i dont know how she does it. but the lady seemed so happy to talk to us and she was way interested that we were all volunteer english teachers.

its outings like this that just make me love china even more.