All of us, with the exception of Ron, were still up by 9:30 or 10 this morning and downstairs for some breakfast. I got eggs benedict and a cup of coffee, which really hit the spot. Bryan and I watched the end of the Butler vs. Marquette game only to be upset by Butler’s disappointing last possessions. After just taking it easy and relaxing until about 11:15, we decided we needed to wake Ron up since we had to check out by noon. We all got our stuff together and checked out but ended up just sitting around by the café discussing what to do for the rest of the day. Bryan and I really wanted to go bike the city wall but Jess and Ron really needed to study so we left them at the hostel to be productive and walked across the street to get on top of the wall.
After a pathetically slow walk up the stairs due to our soreness, we made it on top of the wall and over to the bike rental place. It cost 40 yuan for 100 minutes, which we thought was pretty reasonable but we had heard from Joe and Catriona that it would probably take 2 hours to bike the whole wall and they charge you for every minutes you are late. A little paranoid about how much time we had Bryan and I started at a pretty decent pace, especially considering we could barely make it up the stairs. We stopped at every corner and took some pictures as well as some attempts while riding. After about 25 minutes we realized we were halfway done so we slowed down the pace a little bit. We stopped and grabbed some waters, which reminded us of how sore we actually were. We felt fine while riding, but once we stopped it was torture. We got back on our bikes agreeing to stay on the rest of the time and finished the loop. We were done in just over an hour, which was surprising considering the estimation Joe and Catriona had given us.
After a 9-mile bike ride and about 30 minutes to spare we were content with just handing in the bikes early and heading back to get some homework done. Once we got back we started right in on thermo and put in our orders for lunch. I got a pizza half pesto and pepperoni and half barbeque chicken. It was really good but I could only stall by eating it for so long.
Right when I started getting into my homework a group of Chinese high schoolers started talking to us. Apparently they just come hang out at the hostel to practice their English and make new friends. We talked about everything from American pop culture like big bang theory and high school musical to how they are surprised that parents let high schoolers in the states have boyfriends and girlfriends. We also had the pleasure of listening to one of the girls sing Adele for us, which was actually really impressive. Ron started laughing just because the situation was funny and then she got embarrassed and stopped but she actually sounded a lot like her. After we had talked with them for a solid couple of hours they had to leave, which was a good thing for us since we had so much work to do. They all made sure to get pictures with us and write down our email addresses so they could contact us in the future. With that we said our goodbyes and did some serious work for the next hour.
The hour was not near enough, but we had to start making our way to the airport. We walked down to the Bell Tower and got on the airport bus, which got us to our terminal in less than an hour for only 26 yuan. We got through security without a problem and once we got to our terminal started back in on homework. As soon as we boarded we realized that the flight was not at all going to be conducive to doing homework with the cabin burning up and hardly any room whatsoever. Bryan and I had a decent system going where my laptop was between our two tray tables and we worked the best we could for the couple of hours. We met some pretty cool people on the plane in our little American corner who are teaching in Shanghai. One of the guys had actually lost a tooth on the trip, supposedly eating pizza, which we thought was pretty funny. One of the girls was actually in engineering, which we found pretty surprising because she sounded like the one of the most ditsy girls ever, but good for her I guess.
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Anyway, we rushed off the plane to get in line for a cab and got in one right away. We got home in 30 minutes and just barely missed the chaining of the doors but the auntie was still up so she let us in without a problem. We talked with a Adam and John about our trip for a little bit and then Bryan and I went back down to the bat cave to get our thermo done. I finished around 2:30 and headed upstairs to bed and of course just laid there for 45 minutes before I could actually fall asleep.
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