Date: July 11thLocation: Jinan
Day 3: Big DinnerToday is the Big Family Dinner where we will have a meeting of the families. This is something I already experienced and it’s quite nice. The meal takes place in a separate room with a large, round table in the center where we all will sit and food will be placed on the motorized, rotating center. Grab food at your leisure.

Menu should be pretty chill, staple foods in the North are more noodles or buns, but rice is still present. These meals often have a lot of small dishes with fresh fruit, cold vegetable salads, fish is a specialty, lightly prepared duck, crisp crackers, any soups are usually present.    



The room from our last trip





Things to do in Jinan
Each day we will have a fair amount of chilling time where we can occupy ourselves in whatever way we wish. A few things we can try to pepper into our day:
Baotu Spring Park
Daming Lake
Black Tiger Spring
Shandong Art Museum
See a movie
Wander the gigantic mall across from the hotel
Play poker
Nap