Adrian’s Brain Injury Blog

Day 3

December 23rd, 2006

So today started pretty slow. Blaz decided it would be wise to get up at the crack of dawn, and wake the rest of us up. Technically he was up at 9.00am Sydney time, but someone forgot to tell him we are in a different time zone, and, it’s 3 hours behind.

We chilled in the room for the better half of the day watched a DVD and snoozed a bit, then thought it would be smart to go for a walk. So after layering Blaz up with 3 jumpers, 4 pairs of socks, blankets and scarf we ventured out into -2′C temperature. We did not take into account the wind chill factor.

We were headed for “The Temple of Heaven” a short 15 min walk. We literally froze by the time we got there, red noses, rosy cheeks and frost biten fingers, but we made it. We were there for no longer the 10 sec outside the gated and we were swarmed by no less tha 10 locals trying to sell us jackets, beanies, watches, magazines, and gloves. We didn’t want any but I managed to bargin the gloves down to $10US and ‘headies’, but i don’t think she knew what i meant, so we didn’t buy them.

They were hitting me with what they wanted me to buy, it was insane. I started to tell them all, “Blaz would run every single one of them over”, and they still didn’t understand. We figured out ignoring them is the best way to get out.

Freezing cold, frost biten and surrounded we decided we would go into The Temple o a partially warmer day. We headed back to the hospital, but detoured down the ramp to the frozen river. Beauitful scenery, but we were freezing, so we’ll soak in the scenery another day.

We got back to the hospital to thaw out, and decided we’d never go outside again. I’m sure that will only last till tomorrow.

Wondering around the hospital corridors, Blaz and I discovered it was kosher to smoke in the foyer of a hospital. China is not a place to come and kick habits.

We wordered our dinner and chilled for an hour till it arrived, three (3) dishes of Chinese cuisine sets us back no more than $10.00, so yeah you guessed it, that ‘s been our breakfast, lunch and dinner since we got here.

N.B-I looked at the DVD player and it was 01010101. (11:11)

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