the randomness of china and our current lives

So there are some various differences and random things throughout our days that never seem to make it into our regular blogs, so here is a blog that is filled with our random thoughts about this stuff.

a) we are currently watching cinemax, which is one of the 4 english channels we can find. there has been exactly 2 movies on during our entire trip that we actually have heard of. one of which we missed 90% due to having to leave and because Megan woke up from a nap. needless to say, we truly have no clue what was happening or how it ended. hbo, cinemax, pearl (which had exactly one rerun of project runway) and star movies. every movie that comes on, we have never heard of (they are american movies but we have no clue) and they are these crazy plots of seeing death, bleeding from a stomach and lying to people. we cannot follow them at all, yet we keep them on to feel like a part of the world, as opposed to being in a hotel room.

b) milk in this country is bad. i don't mean it tastes bad, i mean every single carton is expired by a various amount of days. the freshest i could find in 3 7/11's around the hotel expired 2 days ago. some were from a week ago, and one even had a 2008 date. do they seriously drink expired milk...especially by a week. no wonder why a carton of milk goes bad in a few days in the hotel. they are all expired already.

c) they have no type of oragel or anything of the sort for babies gums when they are teething. do they just jack them up on liquer or something? i found someone in watsons, which is similar to a cvs of sorts, and she translated to the store clerk what i was looking for and she gave me baby toothpaste. not quite what i was looking for. i really do wonder about this though...

d) showering is a family/friend/room activity. im serious. the first hotel had a glass window seperating the bedroom from the bathroom, but you could look right in. they had blinds, so we closed them. but don't think about showering and using the toilet at the same time, because your in their together. the toilet had no door and the shower was clear glass. but the shower itself was even crazier. they had a hose that could be held by hand and then you turn the middle knob (like for a bath) and it gives you an overhead shower. teresa flooded the bathroom attempting to learn it. i gave the shower at the westin the first go around and i to almost flooded the bathroom. this hose had a head that was more like a lawn sprinkler, but it was in the air. if you pull the round lever you get the overhead shower that remsembles a sprinkler, not a shower. washing hair is an event. the shower and the toliet share a door. im serious. its sliding and goes from side to side, so only one person gets a door. everything is of the frosted glass variety, including the sliding doors to the actual bathroom enterence. but please don't feel you need to walk into the bathroom traditionally. you can just hope in from the bath tub. which is located next to my bed. there is a sliding glass door to seperate it all.

e) we have possibly eaten more american food since being here than we do in american. kfc- check. mc donalds- check. papa johns- check. pizza hut- check. while teresa was waiting for the pizza at papa johns today, she bought nine west shoes and made a nail appointment for tomorrow. how nuts are we really?

i think i have some pictures fron the first hotel posted already and later i will take pictures of this crazy hotel. we are getting ready to go on the pearl river cruise in a little bitand blog about that later.

closing thoughts: megan loves pasta, elbows are best. sauce is a yes. we think some mashed potatoes sound amazing and she loves chicken. not that we are trying to send some hints or anything.

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so long for now....