Monday, Oct 8th - Day 8
Well, we did a bunch of grocery shopping so this was the first day we actually had cereal and milk available for breakfast; the kids were ecstatic. They'd been without their American comfort foods for almost a week now.
Wayne left for Shenzhen this morning to go to his place of work for a tour. We were kinda nervous to be left in the hotel alone but with our usual verve, we went and explored the first chance we got. We found the reading room of the hotel, where we spent quite a bit of time, playing chess and reading, of course! The hotel worker in the reading room informed us that we needed an ID card and we could check out movies for free so we went and asked for one at the front desk. Movies in hand, we headed back to the room. But, not knowing how to open the lock to our rooms, we thought we had been locked out! We went down to the front desk and had one of the workers come help us. She showed us that you had to turn the key in the lock to the left very hard and hold it there while pushing the door open. Security is nice but sheeesh! We strode into the room, quite relieved, and tried to play our movies. Unfortunately, both DVD players in both our hotel rooms were broken so another call went to the concierge. Eventually the DVD players were replaced and we could watch our movies.
For dinner that night we had some classics, canned spaghetti topped with Kraft Parmesan Cheese! (ugh) Another day we've survived! Whew!
Well, we did a bunch of grocery shopping so this was the first day we actually had cereal and milk available for breakfast; the kids were ecstatic. They'd been without their American comfort foods for almost a week now.
Wayne left for Shenzhen this morning to go to his place of work for a tour. We were kinda nervous to be left in the hotel alone but with our usual verve, we went and explored the first chance we got. We found the reading room of the hotel, where we spent quite a bit of time, playing chess and reading, of course! The hotel worker in the reading room informed us that we needed an ID card and we could check out movies for free so we went and asked for one at the front desk. Movies in hand, we headed back to the room. But, not knowing how to open the lock to our rooms, we thought we had been locked out! We went down to the front desk and had one of the workers come help us. She showed us that you had to turn the key in the lock to the left very hard and hold it there while pushing the door open. Security is nice but sheeesh! We strode into the room, quite relieved, and tried to play our movies. Unfortunately, both DVD players in both our hotel rooms were broken so another call went to the concierge. Eventually the DVD players were replaced and we could watch our movies.
For dinner that night we had some classics, canned spaghetti topped with Kraft Parmesan Cheese! (ugh) Another day we've survived! Whew!
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