Mr. Wok

I love these cute MENS socks at Corte Ingles! Flowers, rubber duckies, or puppies?

For Devin's last day in Murcia, we decided to walk around for a few hours before having an early dinner at Mr. Wok (a Chinese restaurant recommended by my friend Sally).

This was our second trip to a restaurant with "Wok" in the title; Devin loves Chinese food. 

We mozied around Corte Ingles, stumbled along some streets, then realized that we needed some caffeine if we wanted to make it to dinnertime. I took Devin (my best friend, visiting from the US) to Café Ficciones, the film-themed cafe that I'm in love with. The coffees were a suprisingly good deal: 3 euros for the both of them! 

'Bombón':--not sure what the three layers were;
coffee, chocolate, and milk/creme?

We had a few hours until Mr. Wok would open up, so we took the "scenic route".

Feria del libro--I wanted to buy everything!

I bought El Principito, "The Little Prince" in Spanish!

Cute, classy looking restaurant.
Maybe my parents will take me here next week? ;)

This bar/restaurant has a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf. I like!

The bizarre-o trees are finally blooming!

When we got home, Devin had a message from her sister telling her to "call home immediately." Uh-oh. Her mom had been reviewing Devin's travel information and discovered that her bus ticket was for the wrong date!
We spent a few hours trying to work it out but to no avail. We tried changing her ticket on Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari, had people try it on five different computers, and called several phone numbers. Pretty stressed, we left for dinner around 9:30pm--not so early after all!

 The highlight of our last day together was most certainly Mr. Wok. After the past few hours of stressing over Devin's ticket, we finally got to [sort of] nourish our bodies.

 

The entire way to Mr. Wok was kinda sketchy; not many people out, dim street lighting, etc. We were so pleasantly surprised when we found it! The buffet was 10,95 (it said 11,95 online; we were pleased) and soft drinks were included. We ate lots of Chinese food, but probably less than we usually would have if our stomachs weren't nervous from the ticket-stress. 

Plate one: note the banana sushi!

Plate two: "dessert"
(marshmallows, corn, kiwi, pineapple, jello, spring rolls, gummy "bone", fried rice, & cream puff)

The food was yummy but the atmosphere was my favorite. It was super bright, colorful, spacious, modern, very unlike the dingy Chinese restaurant I had pictured in my head. Thanks for the suggestion, Sally!

Somewhere along our way home, I realized that my Spanish credit card might work for switching Devin's ticket. When we got home, it totally worked...all that was incurred was a 2,50 ticket change fee. Who knew that Internet Explorer could save the day? hahah