The old city, Mu's mansion, and Li Jiang Tower

I was pleased that as far as I could tell we attracted no insects overnight. I also felt better when our proprietor and his assistant couldn't find the switch either. Finally they asked the woman who cleaned the rooms and she showed us the switch at the back of a closet in the adjacent room.

We went out for breakfast. The kids wanted American food and found a place with pancakes eggs, bacon, and waffles I left them there and went to a traditional Chinese buffet place with Li Feng, Lina, and Evan. For 10RMB we got hard boiled eggs, both plain and salted, picked radish in a spicy sauce, seaweed salad, cucumber and tofu salad, plain buns, picked cabbage buns, and deep fried dough to dip in soy milk with sugar. Everyone was happy with their breakfast.

We headed off through the old city to Mu's mansion, an ancient complex where the Naxi ruling family lived and worked for centuries. It was now a museum, with beautifully restored buildings and original furnishings and decoration. After wandering the museum, admiring the architecture, gardens, and pools for a couple of hours we had up to the top of Lion mountain to climb to the top of Li Jiang Tower, a 33 meter structure with 10,000 carved dragons on five floors. Lion Mountain is the highest point in the city so we had a spectacular view from the top.

After the tower we headed back to the hotel for a break. I tried to nap and failed. Joshua and I got into an argument. It's obit our 15,789,541st but who's counting. Only one of the three kids acknowledged father's day and between that, the argument, some misbehavior, and Ari lecturing me that I was a jerk for expecting reasonable behavior my kids stole the joy from my day.

We went back out and walked old town. I tried scallion pancakes, tofu, yak meat, and yak milk cheese since we had skipped lunch. Then we went to dinner at a traditional restaurant. The food was OK but we ordered a few dishes that nobody liked much. There was a wild vegetable soup that saunas from a single leafy green and a touch and mushroom dish with soft touch that I didn't like and was too spicy for Andrea. The kids wouldn't try it because it had tofu.

I took a melatonin but had a wakeful period around 5 anyway.