Our hotel was actually an apartment building that was being rented out as an hotel. The designers or the room apparently thought it would be a good idea if they used glass instead of concrete as a wall for the shower. That's when we thought of a new phrase: "It's China." Things in China don't always make sense, such as a bootleg DVD store (my favorite one) next to a police station. So if someone asks about how they can get away with that, we just answer, "It's China." We have now officially adopted those words as our official catch-phrase.
After we got settled down in our apartment/hotel room, Peter just could not resist the temptation of 1 dollar DVDs (at my favorite DVD store). We went on a shopping spree and have accumulated: the complete seasons of Lost, all the episodes of Seinfeld, every James Bond movie, and a DVD titled, "20 of the Best War Movies Ever Made." I think that's enough for around 3 years (give or take a few months).
After being back in the fresh air of Yunnan, I started to feel better despite the rain. Kunming is a big city, but with significantly less people and pollution then Beijing. It still has its fair share of traffic though (I hate traffic), so I was thrilled to finally go back to our house in (traffic-less) Xizhou.
