o recuperate. Friday was a “normal” evening. It had rained for several days but Friday was a deluge. All the sidewalks were flooded; the lovely water features around the grounds were overflowing. We are in the middle of the rainy season in China; the good part of the rain is that if finally dropped below 80 degrees. Bill had to work late so Derek and I just hung around the house and watched bad TV. Most TV here is BAD TV.
Saturday was better weather wise. Bill, Derek and I were picked up by Brown. Brown, a co-worker of Bill’s, had agreed to take us to purchase a new motorbike (scooter) for us. Brown knows people. He was taking us to a distributor that would get us a better price since we were cutting out the middle man. It is my understanding that we could get an even better price but the scooter was likely stolen. Since I have no desire to see the interior of a Chinese prison, I chose to go with the legal option. Three hours later we are the proud owners of a new Prince. I went with the cobalt blue with a storage box on the back. Bill got them to add an alarm and automatic starter. I can start my bike from the sixth floor. I guess that alarm is a good idea with the active stolen bike market. They also gave us rain gear for all three of our scooters and mirrors for Derek’s scooter.
After driving the scooter back to the apartment and thanking Brown for his assistance. Bill, Derek and I returned to the downtown area for HOTPOT lunch. We went to the street that has bike accessorie
s and bought all of us helmets. Good idea! On to the RT-MART for grocery shopping. Trying to get a taxi back home was not easy. Actually it didn’t happen. We tried but they all kept driving pass. I was beyond done. Occasionally one finds that there are people that don’t want to deal with us westerners. It is not very warm and fuzzy and to be honest….this westerner was ready to start flinging “the bird” freely. Thank God the weather was agreeable since we walked for miles. We ended up at Fugimia (Still not spelled correctly) I bought new shoes for $2.50 and Burger King. Around Fugi is a few million taxis’s so we were able to catch a ride the remainder of the way home.
Nap time. Evening closed out with Bill and I going to Double 7 Club. A great little bar downtown to watch a couple bands. The bands were good and the rum and cokes were iced. We met a number of locals that have been entertaining Bill and it was a good evening. I will explain the locals in more detail at a later date. The bands were really entertaining. I didn’t catch all the names but the main guitar player is “Steve Ray” and he is damn good. Good Music + Good Drinks + Fun People = HANGOVER!Which leads me into Sunday but that will have to wait for tomorrow. It is Nap Time Again.
2 comments:
Does your head feel as good as it did when you had a few too many drinks across the street at Jimmy's?
I see you can't make up your mind on which background color to keep... ha! Anyways, how are the Olympics from your end???
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