Saturday, March 8, 2008

February 9th: China Day 5 and return to HK

Day 24, 8:30AM: As I usually begin my mornings, I started by waking up. After this I proceeded to stay in our hotel room and chat on Skype with my parents instead of going to Dim Sum for breakfast (not exactly my idea of breakfast food). Finally, we got off to a very, very late start and decided to grab some food quickly before we had to catch our train. By the time we packed and checked out of the hotel, we had about 10 minutes to get our lunch, and it was probably the fastest meal I’ve ever had because naturally, my meal arrived about 5 minutes after everyone else’s. Funny how that works, isn’t it? So next we literally ran to the MTR to get to the train station and ended up getting there in plenty of time.

When we got back to Shenzhen, we walked back to the border and I bought my Star trek DVDs, and also some James Bond movies as well as the Stargate Atlantis episodes. This turned out to be a double edge sword, because I then spent the next two and a half weeks watching 5-6 episodes each day, but that’s a whole other story. So, we then came back across the border to HK, took the train back to UST and I was home. Oh, before we left Shenzhen I was walking down a hallway to use a restroom, and as I was about to enter the door, I suddenly had to duck. The ceiling was about 5’ 9” tall at this point. I guess China just wasn’t designed with me in mind.

This was our view from the window of our hotel


The area right next to our hotel wasn't exactly the nicest.


I enjoyed watching the view fro our window.


This is the first McDonald's in China!


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