Woke up this morning feeling a bit worse for wear, Sam phoned me to get directions to my apartment and Sonya, Analisa and I all got showered and dressed ready to go out for lunch when Sam arrived. We went to the American bar at pinnacle plaza, they do such yummy smoothies! After lunch we tried to find the lake that I had been told about but no one seemed to know where it was so we came back to the apartment and played cards, listened to music and just mooched about and catching up on the last 2 weeks. Analisa is from Norway, Sonya is from Australia and Sam is from London and we were sharing stories and experiences and I think it’s fascinating how different countries can give such different experiences but then there can be a lot of similarities also.
In the evening we got a tuk tuk to a Mexican at Pinnacle Plaza. It took longer because we were going so much slower but we got to see a lot more of the scenery because he took us through the park. Now if I had been anywhere else, alarm bells would have been ringing because the park has no lights and we were on our own and going down dark alleyways, but because everyone keeps telling us how safe China is and that there’s no violent crime, we weren’t bothered. You are literally taking your life in your hands going in these though as if they take a corner too sharply or fast you feel like you are going to tip up. Also any other road users just speed past and came so close to hitting us my heart was in my mouth for most of the journey!
We got to the Mexican corner, a small Mexican family run restaurant and had fajitas which were delicious. As we were leaving there was a live band on a stage in the car park playing covers of Pink Floyd as part of the supermarkets 12th anniversary and there were tables, free BBQ, drinks, decorations and a dance floor with lot’s of people there so we stopped to listen to the band who were very good and played a lot of rock classics.
At about 10.30pm a few men put some fireworks in the road behind us (literally 2 metres away from where we were sat) one of the men had a box of fireworks and a lit cigarette in the same hand (honestly, health and safety is shockingly bad over here!) I turned to Sam and said “is that safe there?” and Sam replied “no, they won’t light them so close to us” well he was wrong! They lit the fireworks and if I had reached out my arm I could have touched them, the firework was spitting at me and was so hot and bits were flying in my hair, we were trapped by the table though and had to crawl under it to get away! We couldn’t believe it and as soon as we were out of the way just fell about laughing.
No comments:
Post a Comment