Friday,
October 31, 2008
FREE DAY IN BEIJING
Today was pretty low-key and uneventful. We were all in
recovery mode after the long trip, and aside from a brief
journey to the Carrefour (Chinese equivalent of Wal-Mart)
we pretty much rested in the room. Sherry, our Beijing
guide, met us in the lobby after breakfast and briefed us
on what to expect for the touring tomorrow. Evidently they
are planning to keep us very busy all day and she wanted
us to be prepared. After a rather impressive hotel
breakfast buffet we headed down to the Carrefour and
picked up some staples (aka Diet Coke!) Only they call it
Coke Light here and it tastes a little strange. After that
we ate lunch at the hotel since we didn’t have Sherry with
us to navigate the ones down the street and menus are only
in Chinese. We headed back to the room to take a brief
(ha!) nap before heading out again.
The plan was to rest for a couple of hours and then meet
for some sightseeing and dinner. However, everyone
overslept and we never actually left the room again. In
fact, we laid down around 3 and it’s almost 7 now. Holt is
still sleeping and probably will continue to do so until
morning. You can see from the pic he is pretty wiped out.
Hopefully he will catch up on his sleep since tomorrow
will be a very long tiring day for us all.
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In front of our hotel
Ange and Holt at the hotel |
