Hotel Swimming

Monday - July 11, 2005

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In the morning, we ate breakfast quickly because the driver was waiting outside to take my aunt to work. We went along so we could have a ride to the mall. We planned on walking around and looking at random stuff. The first store we went into turned out to be a Wal-Mart superstore.

Since we already walked in, we looked around and bought a few things. We didn't spend too long though, because it would be pointless to spend time in china walking around a Wal-Mart when theres so many in the Us. Once we left, we went to a few more places on the block, but we couldn't find anything interesting. The driver then came and took us to a department store, where we bought some shoes for my brother.

I am now convinced that the creators of the game "Frogger" were Qingdao natives. If you look at any street, you'll see human versions of the frog in the game. The cars do not stop or slow down at all for people, so the goal is to slowly walk to the other side while avoiding the cars. You try and find gaps in the next lane, and then walk through them. If you run, the drivers can't anticipate your movement, and you're at a high risk of being hit. That's why everyone walks across streets in tight groups while clutching each other's arms. Groups of people make up the frog.

After lunch, we went to the sixth floor of a hotel to swim. My brother was shocked to see all the nude boys running around the locker room throwing their towels at each other. When we first got into the swimming pool, it was pretty cold, but we then went to the hot tub and got warm. Once we decided to go back into the swimming pool, it wasn't that cold anymore. We had brought drinks, so we drank them in the hot tub and then used the empty cans as weapons in a water fight.

When we got back home, we had some watermelon, played some cards, had dinner, and then went out to visit some relatives in Qingdao. We first went to my dad's uncles house, where one of my twin cousin lives. They fed us a lot of watermelon even though we just ate dinner. Then we went to my dad's brother's house, where the twin cousin's older twin lives. They fed us a lot of drinks even though we just ate dinner and watermelon. We finally came back to the house at 9.

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