Today was our last day in Nanjing. Last night Buddha was sad that we were leaving and cried all night long occasionally yelling really loud. When we woke up the rain had stopped and it was actually nice a cool today. We slept in and woke up ready to start our day around noon. George and Max had gotten up earlier to go eat breakfast, but Gordon and I slept in. For lunch we went to the same sushi bar we had been to earlier to eat off the conveyer belt again.
When we were done eating we walked around the city again for the last time. Stopping by some of the same shops we had been to before to pick up some last things. After we walked around for a little while, we decided to go play some pool in one of the pool halls max likes. The building that had the pool hall was enormous. We had to wait for the elevator to come down from the 21st floor before we could go up to the 14th to play pool. On the first floor in the lobby there was about 25 people roller skating like it was a roller rink. When we got up to the pool hall we got two tables and just switched back and forth playing each other. There were actually a lot of people there and they had snooker tables too, which is like Canadian pool, where the balls are smaller, the pockets are smaller, the tables are bigger, and there are different rules to the order of making the balls. After every time we finished a game one of the waitresses would run over to the table and re-rack it to start again. The tables were nice and we played all the way until it was dinner time.
For dinner, Max’s mom had picked out this really nice restaurant for us on the 7th floor of a really nice huge mall. The mall was really fancy and had a giant dinosaur skeleton at the entrance we used. It also had really top of the line stores like Burberry, Giorgio Armani, Louis Vuitton, and many others. Our restaurant was on the top floor and Mrs. Zhang already had our table waiting when we got there. We had a little private hut looking thing where we ate with Max’s Mom and Dad. The meal was really good. We ate the usual, pigeon, pigs feet, baby crabs, and duck. The restaurant was really nice, but the meal was really chill. We relaxed and enjoyed each others company for the last time.
After dinner we came back to Max’s house and began to pack our stuff. Tomorrow we leave for Shanghai and are staying for 3 days, but we fly out straight from Shanghai so we won’t be coming back to Nanjing anymore. The Zhang’s gave each of us these really nice traditional Chinese tea pots. We packed everything up and said goodnight. Tomorrow morning after breakfast is going to be the last good bye. There may or may not be tears, but we are extremely grateful for the dear hospitality the Zhang’s have shown us. It has been an amazing trip and they have been the best hosts in the world. They really have made us feel like part of the family and it’s a pretty special thing to get that from people you can’t even speak to. We’ve been insisting that they come to the US, just as much as Max insisted that we come to China, so I hope someday they are able to make it. I hope that they know that we love them and that we are so grateful for everything they have done for us. It’s going to be very tough to say good bye in the morning.
Marty
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