Hot Pot and Biking around the Wall

This morning, we're off to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.

Pretty ingenious cell tower disguised as a pine tree.

And yes, even Papa John's is in Xian.

Our next stop was the Shaanxi History Museum...

From the museum, we headed for lunch.  No not KFC.  LOL.

But at a huge multilevel shopping mall in Xian.

There are dozens of restaurants at this mall including a branch of the wildly popular Haidilao Hot Pot Cheng.  This place is huge with generally long wait times, such that they have manicure stations while you wait.

Menus are on ipads with pictures so it was really easy to select and order.   

Service and food were amazing.  What a fun place.

Tossing tofu noodles, which were delicious!

Our wonderful server.  

After lunch, we headed to one of the gates of the Xian city wall, which completely surrounds the old city. 

Where we decided to try the 8.5 mile ride on the wall around the city.

8.5 miles is a long, long way.  But we hung in with just a few stops and managed to make it around in an hour and 20 minutes.

What a long day with a major workout on the bike at the end.  Still pretty full from lunch, we had drinks and hors d'ouvres in the 1953 Bar and called it a night.