Day Twenty-Five

We left Lingao this morning and on a surprising note.

Last night after my last blog entry a fight broke out in front of our hotel. We looked outside to see the tail end of it. A group of men waving small trash cans in the air were chasing another man who was defending himself with a lawn chair, he eventually ran away.

Right when we thought it was all over with, about an hour later, a group returned with the man who had been chased away. They came back to the hotel and broke a front window and the two swinging glass doors and somewhere in the thick of it one man got bloodied up! Although it wasn't life threatening, he was still taken to the hospital by the police.

Sorry, I know none of you wanted to hear that story but I figured I'd spice up your viewing for once.

Anyways, like I said, we left the "danger zone," Lingao, this morning and I won't be going back to rural China any time soon.

In the shadow of last night today was pretty boring. We left the hotel at eight in the morning and our driver brought us to our nice hotel in Haikou, Sheraton. When we got here we showered and cleaned up so that we could go into the city. For my fifth time we went to Pizza Hut!

After lunch we went to an area in Haikou called Old Street. It's an alley lined with shops where most locals go to buy small goods. When we got back to our hotel we jumped in the pool and just relaxed for the remainder of the day. I finished my Dale Carnegie book and started on the book Wild Swans.

For dinner we went to our hotels nice restaurant, Fusion. Dinner was excellent/not Chinese. We're going to the lobby to say goodbye to some group members and then sleepy time. Love you guys, and I'm praying for you Auntie!