Friday

I know it's Friday because the carpet in the elevator says so. Everyday, the wonderful people here at the Sunshine Plaza change the elevator carpet to meet the stringent naming requirements of the day. Today was supposed to be the day we got Grady's Chinese passport, and, thankfully, things went off without a hitch. We need that Chinese passport to get his American passport on our last and final leg of the trip, which starts tomorrow when we fly to Guangzhou.

Apart from that, we didn't do a whole lot, honestly. Jonah and Grady took long naps, Ryan and Cheryl took half-asleep semi-naps with them, and we didn't leave the hotel. I think the guide, Yisha, thinks we're a bit lame. The other family here went out for a trip to the museum, but we didn't really think that the kiddos would be that interested in seeing fossils and relic coins. I mean, Jonah has really been into Qin-era legalism and it's roots in the Lanzhou area as opposed to the more commonly assumed Confucian relationships that are assumed to have driven the first emperor of China, but he just didn't seem up to it today.

With that, I leave you video of the day's events: