The Night Life

Got out a lot again today! It's making for a great last week here!

 

Hanna and Sylvie called and invited me to join them for some Peking Duck, a traditional Chinese must! I caught a taxi there, only to find them sitting on the stairs of a gutted restaurant. No Peking duck for us, unfortunately. We wandered around Gu Lou (I finally learned how to spell it!) waiting for Nick, Sylvie's boyfriend. For the second time today, actually, as I'd gone real quick earlier. We finally settled on a restaurant in Gu Lou they've been to before and loved.

 

On entering the restaurant we ran into two people that Sylvie knows. How these things happen, I'll never know. We'd always run into people from our group in Europe too. In London me and a friend were sitting waiting for Les Mis to start and looked down our row only to find people from our group that we hadn't talked to since leaving Paris the previous day. In all of London, to have bought tickets to the same show, on the same row. It was crazy! Anyway, I digress...

 

Dinner was quite an assortment of characters... two Australians, two Americans (Nick), a German and her Chinese husband, and later joined by another American and Chinese. Dinner was fantastic though; sweet and sour chicken in a pineapple, more of the heavenly green bean vegetable dish, dumplings, slivered potatoes, noodles, spicy salad.... mmmmm! Dinner was amazingly cheap too. More than enough food for 6 people, only 139 (roughly 20 bucks). Gotta love China! 

 

We sat around socializing for the longest time, which was a ton of fun. Me and Sylvie are really regretting not getting together sooner though. We agreed we should have started hanging out when I first got here! I'm really glad I've gotten to know her before leaving though. Hannah too; they've both just been stellar, taking me out and all. The Internet makes our world that much smaller though. After dinner I politely decided to retire, as they were heading to a bar. I figured a 3 hour meal was enough for me, despite how appealing going to a bar sounded. (Sarcasm, anyone?) Besides, I didn't have a key, and I didn't want to be inconsiderate to the fam.

 

I finally caught a taxi after some guy snatched my first one while I was saying goodbye to Sylvie and Hannah. So rude. I was only standing right next to it! I made it home again, all on my own! Some may say I didn't really experience what China's night life may have to offer, but it was wonderful and just the right night life for me!