Monday - A little better again

Monday was a day off from paperwork, so we had one objective; get out of the room. We ate the hotel breakfast again, which is absolutely outstanding. Breakfast is like Holiday Inn breakfast except not at all. There are really no similarities to speak of. The comparison should have never been made. If the White Swan breakfast was a trout it would be a 24" rainbow that took 30 minutes to land on a remote Montana stream. If Holiday Inn breakfast were a trout it would be store bought with the head on wrapped in plastic. Purchased on the way home from getting skunked so you could make up a story about how good the fishing was. Anyways, we went to breakfast.

After breakfast we decided to head for the mall. This involved another taxi ride. We are gluttons for punishment. But, it was either taxi or hotel room. We chose taxi. You'd think after several near death experiences we would choose otherwise. We have grown to savor the near death experience. I think we are becoming Guangzhou taxi adrenaline junkies. Katie's dislike of vehicles only adds to the adventure. Katie screams, so the taxi driver goes faster, so Katie screams more and so on. Actually, Katie did well in the taxi today, the driver still went fast. Maybe there isn't a correlation.

I'll pause the story for a prayer request

Katie hasn't pooped in five days.

Anyways, the mall was seven stories of different shops. We went looking for a deal. We quickly figured out that there were no deals to be had. Every store was very expensive. This was the upscale mall of China apparently. Seven floors of expensive. We just walked around, found a spaghetti place for lunch and then got back in another taxi. We arrived back at the hotel with that feeling that you get after a ride on the scrambler at the fair.

Katie got a nap. Her fever went down. She played well on the bed most of the evening. After that bath and bed. A pretty good day. No pics today, I'll take more tomorrow. I promise.