touring is hard work
betsy arrived on thursday. wouldn'tcha know it, i wake up friday morning sick. i'd felt myself getting sick and i kept taking it easy and resting, but to no avail. regardless, i popped some cold medicine and we were off. we went to the food market and betsy tried street food and some new fruits, and we bought some stuff for the apt. then we went to the central business district and ate lunch outside. afterwards, we checked out the silk market. i think betsy is the only person who walked into that place and did not make a single purchase. even i couldn't accomplish that. we had to be back early in time to go to friday night dinner. we got there and it was crazy crowded. by the time we returned home, i felt more like shit than previously and decided i needed to take saturday off.
on saturday, i stayed in bed the whole day and betsy went off to the summer palace on her own. today, we went to the antique market. i bought an amber and silver pendant and a silver necklace to go with it. she bought a large pendant of chinese turquoise. then it was off to lunch and the temple of heaven. at lunch, we went to a restaurant where the menu had no pictures and no english. luckily a chinese patron spoke english and helped us order. the food was good. and then we froze our butts off wandering around the temple of heaven. the wind was fierce. it's as if it became winter overnight. no one was prepared for that. tomorrow i think i'm pullin' out the winter coat for our wanderings. we then got betsy's souvenir shoppng out of the way and ate dinner at the cool buddist restaurant. we had 'duck' as our main course-very tasty. i tried a jujube for dessert-yuch, not my thing.
tomorrow is forbidden city, tiananmen sq. area and the acrobat show in the evening and who knows what else in between. hopefully i'll have energy for some swing dancing at night, but right now i'm kinda worried cuz it feels like my cold is traveling into my chest. for a gal with no health insurance, that is quite worrisome. i'm beat. between the wind and mucus today, i had a lot to deal with today. i do hope tomorrow is warmer, or at least, less windy.
on saturday, i stayed in bed the whole day and betsy went off to the summer palace on her own. today, we went to the antique market. i bought an amber and silver pendant and a silver necklace to go with it. she bought a large pendant of chinese turquoise. then it was off to lunch and the temple of heaven. at lunch, we went to a restaurant where the menu had no pictures and no english. luckily a chinese patron spoke english and helped us order. the food was good. and then we froze our butts off wandering around the temple of heaven. the wind was fierce. it's as if it became winter overnight. no one was prepared for that. tomorrow i think i'm pullin' out the winter coat for our wanderings. we then got betsy's souvenir shoppng out of the way and ate dinner at the cool buddist restaurant. we had 'duck' as our main course-very tasty. i tried a jujube for dessert-yuch, not my thing.
tomorrow is forbidden city, tiananmen sq. area and the acrobat show in the evening and who knows what else in between. hopefully i'll have energy for some swing dancing at night, but right now i'm kinda worried cuz it feels like my cold is traveling into my chest. for a gal with no health insurance, that is quite worrisome. i'm beat. between the wind and mucus today, i had a lot to deal with today. i do hope tomorrow is warmer, or at least, less windy.