Well, with WAY more time to kill than we care to think about we're practicing the art of patience... how so? Fill your time with mindless and/or mindnumbing activities! Say for instance finding out silly things about your future child's homeland...
Top 10 silly facts about China:
Ice Cream was invented in China around 2,000 BC
A complete cycle of the Chinese Lunar schedule takes 60 years.
the chinese calendar dates back to 2,600 BC, it is the oldest known calendar.
rather than a tooth fairy visit, if a child loses an upper tooth, the parents plant the tooth in the ground so a new tooth grows in straight and healthy. Parents take a bottom tooth and toss it up to the rooftops so that the new tooth grows in upwards.
It is considered good luck for the gate to a house to face south.
Rice was grown in China as long ago as 5,000 BC
The great wall can be seen from space.
Red is considered a lucky color in China.
For hundreds of years, the Chinese zealously guarded the secret of making silk, imperial law decreed death by torture to those who disclosed the secret.
Origin of paper is generally attributed to the Chinese.
The worlds #1 producer and consumer of Pork is China
The Bureau of Imperial Supplies began producing 720,000 sheets of toilet paper a year, AD 1391, each sheet measuring 2 feet by 3 feet for use by the Emperors.
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