Day 8
This morning we flew back to Beijing for the last leg of our trip. We got to our hotel which is right in the heart of the city, maybe 2 blocks away from Tian' amen square... but it had the typical Chinese bed. Basically, the springs are about an inch below the surface of the matress, so it's incredibly hard and uncomfortable. So we decided to find another hotel for the last 2 nights, but would suffer through that night. After booking another hotel we went in search for some lunch/dinner, and stumbled upon McDonald's. I really just wanted to see if they had any cool Asian flare to their menu, but, they didn't, and, since we were already there.... we decided to have lunch/dinner. Mmmm, western food. A very large shopping mall was next door, so we decided to walk around. It had all the very expensive stores in it, like Armani and Burburry. And here, they are even more expensive than home. But, they did have a Shing Ba Ka (Starbucks!). I can afford that. On our way home we stopped in a little shop to see if we could get a Shi Jiao (foot massage). Not a good idea... so we scrapped that and just went back to the hotel. The swimming pool sounded like a good idea, until we were told we needed to wear a swim cap to go in. We didn't want to pay for one, so they handed us shower caps. Too bad we were the only ones in the pool that night. We sure looked funny. I guess it's just to keep the pool clean, because they also had this wading pool of water you had to walk through from the locker room the the deck, that was freezing! Either for cleanliness or they think it's cool because the professionals wear them. Interesti
ng first day in Beijing. Spending lot's of time in cabs, so our picture of the day is in
one.
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