Today is mine and Matt’s 3 year anniversary so I started the day with a text to him. The sun was shining which matched my good mood, I got ready and left for the subway at 10am as I was off to Beihei park as my new thing that I am doing this weekend. Jodie and Doreenda were supposed to be going with me but they both had other stuff to do instead. I planned to get to Beihei park for 11am and then I was meeting my friend Sam, who was in Beijing for the weekend, at 2pm for a late lunch.
I got to the subway station that was sort of near Beihei park and got a little chariot thing attached to a bike to take me to Beihei park. After 10 minutes I realised that the man was lost and peddling round in circles, but it was a gorgeous day and I was too preoccupied taking photos of the area (we were on a street where there are red lanterns hung outside every restaurant) it looked so pretty I didn’t really care. After 20 minutes the poor (old) man looked exhausted from peddling round so I asked a Chinese couple on bikes when we stopped at the traffic lights where it was and they happened to be going there so we just followed them.
Beihei park is a lot of temple buildings, gardens and trees surrounding a lake and it was really pretty. I wandered round for an hour and it was nice to relax and spend the day by myself when I got a text from Sam saying he couldn’t make lunch, which was disappointing as I had been looking forward to seeing him. I wandered round for a bit longer and then took a boat to the island in the middle of the lake. By 2pm I had had enough so I left the park and wandered the streets outside looking at the little stalls of touristy souvenirs (most of it was tat), I was just wandering aimlessly as I had no idea where I was, but it was kind of nice just exploring. I then got a taxi to the ya show market to have a look around, had a chicken wrap at O’Briens and then at 5pm decided I had had enough and took the subway home.
Doreenda and Jodie had both text me to see what I was up to so I got a taxi home from the subway and they both came round for a takeaway and to play poker. I had a really good chilled out evening just gossiping, listening to music and treating myself to calamari as an anniversary treat. Overall it has been a very good, relaxing day with good company in the evening.
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