Sunday, June 14, 2009

Day 17: Xi'an (6/14/2009)

We're off the train!! Whoooo, whooooooooo! We had some stimulating discussions on the the train last night. Despite all, I slept well and my innards are back to mostly normal. You have no idea how nice that is.

Today has been a Tracy day. We were kind of tired and cranky from the travels, so after the hotel turned out to be more hassle than he wanted to handle, he and I took off for the Starbucks plaza around noon. Now, he may call the hotel names, but I personally can take just about anything as long as there's a clean bed, a/c, and Internet!! The toilet doesn't flush all that well :| (which isn't comforting in my current delicate state *ahem*), but hey, we're right near the roundabout. Which. Is. Awesome. Location, location, location... so yeah, I like it just fine. We had Haagen-Dazs for lunch (mango-vanilla-apricot for him, strawberry for me) and Starbucks to follow up (Americano and finger sandwiches for him, colucci sandwich for me). Lots of life lessons were handed down, and a much happier man and a slightly wiser girl went back to the hotel. We spent the afternoon editing, then he took Hudson and myself to Pizza Hut for dinner, where more life lessons and gossip sessions took place, although no bad stories about Tracy are allowed to circulate. All in all, pretty fantastic.

Now I'm tired.

Here are more pictures from the countryside back in Hebei province (I know, this is confusing).































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