Chinatown and Macy's

Aside from a pretty good scare tonight, at least in Cam's definition, we had a pretty good day today. Tonight the scare came from Johnny's brother who decided to go crazy and come pounding on our door right when we came in. Fortunately Cam had remembered to lock the door and we have the only key so all it ended up being was a stupid boy yelling through the door asking who we were and saying he owned the place and lived here. I called Mandy and they figured out it was Johnny's brother, Johnny's mom came up to see if we were ok and then had a talk with Johnny's brother. That was it but the whole thing scared Cam.

Today we went around taking pictures of different churches, Cam wanted to take some pictures of the inside of one but it's Sunday and they were having mass so I didn't let him. He didn't really understand why I wouldn't ask them if we could take pictures but I think he just went with it. He asked if we have a lot of churches around here and I guess we have quite a bit, especially compared to China. Afterwards we went to Chinatown to look around a bit and have lunch. I tried to speak Mandarin to the waiter at lunch and he didn't understand me at all. Cam spoke to him for one second and figured he spoke Cantonese so they spoke Cantonese the rest of the time. Afterwards Cam told me that he thought Chinatown was more Chinese than China. I didn't really understand what that meant until he explained that China had been modernized and Chinatown hadn't as it was still run and owned by Cantonese since before the doors of China were opened. There were a lot of signs there written in old Chinese, from right to left and Cam said the grocery store we went to only sold things from Canton so it made sense that the people didn't know Mandarin but knew Cantonese.

We tried to go downtown to the Art Institute but we figured out it's free on Thursdays from 5-8pm so we decided to just go then. Cam had an interesting time sitting outside it as there was a small protest with a couple people with signs outside walking up and down the streets saying things like "Honk to Impeach (Bush)" so there were a lot of people honking, which I thought was kind of cool, although it did make the place loud. We decided to go and do some shopping instead so we went to Nordstrom Rack, an Art store (which he really liked), and his favorite Macy's (which unfortunately closed almost as soon as we got there but not before Cam bought some pants). I've gotta find him a better one than Macy's...