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First of all Jimmer keep the jokes and sandwich decisions coming, is funny and interesting, a look into ur mind and feelings. secondly, mums need to be more specific to which mother u r, we both have one....
we are in beijing, yay.the day before we left shanghai we went to an aquarium which was really cool, loads of weird fish, big sharks, smiley looking stingrays and the longest underwater tunnel in the world. we then stumbled around a bit then grabbed a cool bevvy overlooking the river and the sunset over the bund. that evening we got a fat steak and aload of other food well cheap, result. we flew in to beijing on wednesday, yesterday for us. good flight basically slept the whole thing, meaning we missed the food, balls. got taken to a massivly nice hotel, which we ended staying in 4 some bizzare reason, but still well gd. last night we got treated to a roast duck buffet, the nicest duck we have ever had, it included duck soup, duck heart and duck feet oh.. and duck head. beer, pigs and bed. today we checked into our other hotel which we are now staying in for the rest of beijing (4 nights). after checking in we got noodles with luca who is one of the people helping us around beijing along with a girl named abby. after i, (Luke), got a skype conversation in with the beatiful lydia, which was amazing and made me feel much better. we then went to the massive shopping mall down the road, where two chinese girls started talking to us in english, intrigued by the english language we returned the conversation and got invited to a tea house. lovely tea and a gd ENGLISH conversation later the bill arrived. 480rnb-48 pound, for two bloody pots of tea. we are then told by the girls that the men always pay, s***, with rather emptier pockets we bailled from the girls and left feeling cultured and poor, you live and learn!! 2nite we went to a chinese acrobatic show which was awesome, though did think they we're gna die at some points. a triple backflip off a sewsaw on to a chair held up 25ft on a pole by a guy on stilts, a normal daily occurance. we then enjoyed a couple beers in an outside bar down the road from our hotel in downtown area and now here the hotel. all good.
we will try and get some photos up at some point, but not working at the moment.
love to all
matt and luke.
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