Lazy in Guangzhou

We are still making up lost sleep from our flight to Guangzhou and as such wake up close to 8:30AM. We get ready and roll down to the breakfast buffet and we load up. Didn't someone say breakfast is the most important meal of the day? The goal for today is to lounge around and get some rest. The last 8 days have been crazy and we are due for a down day. We go back to the room and play with Shan-Shan, play cards, Nintendo DS, or whatever we want to do. Veronica's travel bed has developed a leak, so it is MacGuyver time. While I head to 7-11 looking for super glue and tape, Julie takes the kids to the "playroom" and exploration of the hotel. I came back to the room thinking I would be pretty handy and fix the bed, but apparently super glue and the plastic the bed is made out of don't work well together. I finally decide on a crude way to fix it, Big Red bubble gum and tape. Works like a champ and I am happy to say it made it through the night. I head down to the WiFi zone and hit up email and pay some bills(thank you Internet and SSL). I head back to the room and we snack on some of our airport remnants and the little ones take a nap while the older two watch Madagascar 2 and Julie and I read (well Julie read, I read the inside of my eyelids).

After we wake up the young uns, we decide we cannot be sloths all day so head out to the park that is across the street. Sounds simple enough until you remember we are in China. To cross the street we have to go through the metro station which is jammed with people and seems to be a lot further across than the street is wide. When we surface we are right where we are supposed to be so I guess it went according to plan. We wander down to the Lamborghini dealership and enjoy looking at the two Murcialago 550LP2s in the window. Cars like that would be a waste in traffic like this. We head to the park and enjoy the scenery and the Chenglish (Chinese interpretation of English) on some of the signs. The park is beautiful and as usual, we create a scene with the kids. We decide to head back to the hotel and that our dinner should be the old favorite, McDonald's. There is one very close to the hotel and they must be used to foreigners. The menu is more or less the same with BBQ chicken sandwiches and BBQ chicken legs on the menu and taro root pies instead of apple. The kids enjoy chicken nuggets while I have a Big Mac and Julie has fries and get this, corn in a cup. We eat and then decide that sundaes are in order so everyone gets chocolate and I have pineapple. Mmmmm, good.

We head back to the room and wind down for the night. Our laundry is done and this was WAY cheaper than the laundry in Xi'an so that was nice to get done. I head back to the WiFi zone and get back in the room just in time to find the F1 race from Hungary on a Chinese station. So much for understanding the calling of the race. Shan-Shan enjoys watching F1 and is clearly a Ferrari fan. We get the kids ready for bed and call it a successful day.