Guangzhou,
China
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
We were up at 7.30 but by the time breaky came around, Mum didn't feel like eating. Breaky costs $8.00 and she didn't think she'd eat that much. I went down to breaky with the others and came back to Mum with some toast and gossip. Keith has a very sore back and it has been getting worse. They have decided to go home on the next flight. After they finished breaky, we took the laptop to their room and emailed the travel agent. They were able to get a flight out tonight - leaving here at 9.05pm. Mum rang the airline and tried to upgrade their tickets to business class but it was going to cost them $1500 each. They will try again at the airport - maybe cheaper there. We spent the morning in the hotel trying to organise everything, get them packed and moved them into Nanas room for a few hours. Val wanted to go and look at computer things so Keith stayed in the hotel room while the rest of us went for a walk. We found a shop but the Nintendo looked fake. Pa, Mum and I walked to the White Swan Hotel - Nana and Val got Keith and luggage - and we had buffet afternoon tea. You could have nuggets, prawn sticks, fish (yuk), crab, noodles, more fish, beef, pizza dim sims...... then lots and lots of cakes and sandwiches and mousse and sago and biscuits....
After we finished Nana and Pa took Keith and Val to the airport. They were both upset at having to leave and both had tears in their eyes. Mum and I walked back to our hotel through the park. All around Guangzhou are these big statues - just near our hotel we must have seen 20 of them. Some were kids playing marbles, playing Paper, Scissors, rock and folding origami. There was old men playing instruments, men taking photos, all sorts of different things. We then went back to the hotel room.
