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Ni Hao ma? Wo shi hen lei. (How are you?, I’m really tired.)

We came back from Xi’an today. We didn’t do that much this morning. We just got up, had some room service breakfast in my dad’s room, and then our driver came and picked us up to take us to the airport.

The Airport is a pretty long ways away, it took about an hour. We saw a lot of interesting things on the way. Xi’an is a pretty clean city, and not as busy as Beijing. We passed lots of parks, and in a bunch of them people were doing morning exercises. Some were doing Taijiquan (Tai-chi), others were doing some kind of fan exercise. The stoplights were kind of neat - some of them have signs that tell you how long before they change.

Most of the signs here are in Chinese and in English. Sometimes the English is kind of weird, and lots of bad spelling. (Rear End Collisino - Kepp Space) Some we have no idea what they mean (”Don’t jump over nuclear waste?”). Also things aren’t all on time - the desk to get our boarding pass was 20 minutes late opening - and we have the picture’s to prove it!!

The airplane flight was ok. The food was weird again, but we got drinks. I also had some white rice from the food they gave us. I played on my PSP and tried to sleep a little. When we got to Beijing we drove back to the house and were surprised to find that someone had TP’d the house!!

There were big signs that said Happy Birthday Melissa and Carolyn. Today is Melissa’s birthday, and tomorrow is Aunt Carolyn’s. For Melissa’s birthday we kept the party small, and at home. She wanted a big pancake dinner, and Aunt Carolyn made tons of them. Melissa’s record is 32 pancakes!! She also made bacon, and sausage and scrambled eggs. It was just us, and Judy’s family. Melissa got lots of gifts, I gave her a PDA she could use. We stayed up pretty late starting the second season of Lost.

We got some DVDs up at the store. You have to ask if they’re “qing chu” (clear) or “bu qing chu” (usually videotaped by someone in the theatre). They only cost about 10 yuan, or $1.25. 20 yuan for some of them.

After the movies, it was time to go to sleep.

Wo dei zou le - I gotta go - Zai Jian!