4AM and wide awake

Let's see... what does one do at 4am in China...Blog! I have been awake since about 3:30am and finally decided to just go ahead and get up when Caleb woke up as well. He came in our room at 4:30am wide awake as well. And yes I said our room. We are in a 2 bedroom, 2 bath suite at this great hotel. I am so glad I decided to "tough it out" in a 3 star hotel supposedly. If this is a 3 star, I can't imagine what a 5 star in Beijing is like as this is perfect and way upscale for us Georgian rednecks ;)

Well since we are roughing it around here, we decided to call about the massages that are offered in the hotel. I called the desk at 10:30PM last night. I simply asked about full body massage and she said how many people, I said 2 and she hung up on me. I thought oh well guess not going to get one tomorrow. Well in 2 minutes we had 2 people at our hotel room door ready to do our massages. So we splurged and decided on the 45 minute massages and spent a whole $13 each! We even tipped-so we were out $30 for 45 minutes of heaven :) (I am sure my sister is definately regretting not coming with us now!)

Oh and we have been using Skype for calling home and it is very cheap at only $.02 per minute. We have been able to call out anytime we want and talk for as long as we want. That has been very nice. Caleb just came in here and asked me if we can go to McDonald's for breakfast. The poor kid is living off of goldfish crackers and coke. I told him that I would see if the guide could take us to McDonalds's today for lunch. We are supposed to go to Tinnammen Square, Forbidden City, and Summer Palace today for touring, then we go to the Acrobatics show tonight. Since we are all up so early today, I hope we can hold out without a nap today so that we can get better at the time difference. My Travis will get a nap of course, but maybe Caleb and I should hold off on one. I guess we will see how the day progresses. Here are a few more pics for you all at home. Enjoy! Oh and as you could see in the pics, I finally found Diet Coke and Lori asked what the empty plate was next to the cup in that picture I posted earlier. I figured out what she was talking about. That is a picture of a squatty potty with a trash can beside it!