October was full of awesome. I worked a total of 8 days. Our first visitors from the U.S. came for 10 days, and I took on the mantle of informal tour guide and interpreter. It was a whirlwind tour beginning with the infamous “night market” in Beijing and eating some fried starfish. We hit lots of the Beijing highlights, including the Great Wall, Summer Palace, Forbidden City, and Temple of Heaven, as well as two trips to the dirt market for some art and knick-knacks. Never did get that fish lock, though. Nor those motorbike hand covers – we’ll keep looking!
We squeezed in an excursion to the ancient capital city of Xian, mainly to see the famed Terra Cotta Warriors. It was an interesting trip, complete only with the finding of a fuzzy baseball cap emblazoned with the immortal words “Stompy Ruffers.” Alas, the cap stayed on the shelf at the shop, for none of us were worthy to carry – let alone wear – such a wondrous item.
The last portion of the month was spent being sick with a nasty cold, and we're both still trying to shrug off the congestion.
It's sounding like next October will be quite solid, too: new visitors who will be charged with bumping things up a notch at the night market -- we gotta find something that tops starfish!
Anyway, our spring is fairly wide open in case anyone else wants to squeeze in before we get up to centipedes and scorpions.
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You should have bought me the "stompy ruffers" hat! Of course, you didn't say that it was of baseball cap variety. That knocks it down a peg.
I don't care how much the stakes are raised by next October, I'm not eating a centipede. :-)
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