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6/13/2005

Our last day in Beijing and China except for me. We went shopping in the morning. I was not too much interested for I had a long way to go before returning to the States and I didn’t drag luggage along. I observed how game was played between buyers and sellers. Their strategies and rules were intricate. Normally buyers asked for a ridiculously high price for foreigners. Since we were pre warned, we could offer 10% to 20% of the asking price initially. Most of the sales were done at about 30%. Even so, Erik and Tyler spent all their monies and more.

We went to QuanJuDe for the famous Peking Duck. We all had two missions to complete in Beijing: the great wall and the duck. Anything else would be just a welcoming extra. J The meal tasted really good but to the oily side. An interesting thing was that each duck served was individually numbered. We were given four certificates for the ducks we had. The numbers were in billions.

Erik and Luke got sick. Luke had suffered stomach illness since arrived in Beijing. We went to a Pharmacy to buy him some medicine. The pharmacist wanted to sell him three different drugs. We thought it was on over kill so he decided to get just one. Later when I went to Erik’s room to watch the tape of interviewing the Miss International Tourism, he threw up in the bathroom. He sounded really bad in there. We felt terribly sorry for him. I guess it is time for our kids to return home.

posted by Unknown @ 8:10 PM