Thank You, Come Again.

So, for dinner the other day after the lovely internet cafe, we went to 7-11 (yes, that one)because we didn't want to get too daring with our food choices (well, fine, I didn't), so Megan got some spaghetti and I decided that I would just have a peanut butter sandwich at the hotel.

I developed a blister on the bottom of my pinky toe and it hurt SO BAD. I had been complaining about it pretty much the entire day, but never stopped to look (basically because I didn't want to take off my clean sock and put it anywhere near the dirty floor, haha) at it. I cut it with some nail clippers in hopes that it would make it feel better. Afterall, we were planning on walking a lot the following day.

I woke up on Thursday with no desire to do anything. I was emotionally and physically drained. The whole 'PMA' went right out the window the second I got ready to go. My foot hurt and I didn't want to do any walking. I didn't feel like being soaked in sweat, which was bound to happen the second I walked out the door. So, we had planned on going to the Forbidden City, but Megan wanted Papa John's (gotta love America) for some pizza. We walked and took the subway to the pizza place, my foot throbbing. While we were sitting there eating, we decided not to go to the palace because it would've been a lot of walking and I just didn't want to. We opted for going shopping in Sanlitun and go to the acrobatics show. Well, the acrobats were sold out, and instead of walking a little we walked a TON. Probably would've been better off just going to The Forbidden City.

I was getting really irritated and just wanted to go back to the hotel. Thursday was kind of a dud, in general. Megan wanted to try the movies again (it is NOT like at home where we have new movies every week- they only have 2 films in English and they don't have new ones come out) but it was the same movies as before. Then we walked to the International Bookstore and ate dinner at McDonald's. China had a soccer match, so on the jumbotron on Wangfujing Street was the match, and a ton of people congregating watching the match, cheering. It was a sight, but we were just so tired and irritated, so we went back to the hotel after an unsuccessful day.

I took a shower in our weird bathroom... It was super weird, but I felt REALLY good to be clean. I've felt super disgusting lately, much like China is. haha

Today we were going to go to The Forbidden City, but it was closed because the President of China had an Olympic lunch with other dignitaries around the world. We watched him shake everyone's hand (including W's- HILARIOUS. America rocks), then we went to TGIFriday's and had a lovely American burger, and walked around some hutongs and HouHai Lake. Everything was closed, though, because everyone is preparing for the Opening Ceremonies tonight.. in a half hour! I'll have some random China things in another blog, but right now we have to head back to the hotel to watch the Opening Ceremonies on TV... no tickets to that！Crazy insane prices! We did get more tickets to some games, though... watch out hockey and weightlifting! haha! We might be going to see some basketball, but no USA... boo!