Our hotel is beautiful. It's my first time to stay at an all-inclusive style resort. They have everything here... pool, volleyball, horse riding, cooking demonstrations, etc. Everything is planned for you if you want to be a part of it. The resort is on 64 acres and they have a nature reserve rehabilitating Orang utans.... They only have babies though... 7-8 year olds. So we are going to check it out this afternoon. And they have their own private beach 3 km beach. We went walking on it this morning and I plan on practicing yoga on the far side tomorrow morning. Our room faces the ocean and we leave our window open so we can hear the beautiful sound of waves crashing.
It's amazing that in one short month (2 for me) we have become such city-dwellers. For example last night, we became so excited when we looked up and could see stars! I know. And we can hear birds in the mornings! The only birds Beijing has to offer are magpies and they only come to the playground at my school because the children feed them every morning. Beijing has a lot of greenery and trees of course, but no hills... well, there are mountains outside of Beijing that you can apparently see on a clear day (Chase says he has seen them from his language school which is on a top floor of a building downtown.... but only once), but I have never seen any. We also saw several geckos around the hotel last night and had fun looking at the hermit crabs and sandpipers on the beach this morning.
We are definitely in such a relaxed mode. We are so grateful to be here. Here's the view from our room.
2 comments:
Mmmmm.... vacation. Glad you're soaking in the sounds and sites. You two deserve some fun!
Thanks, we got upgraded to a suite in a newer section of the hotel tonight and it rocks! We are so glad to be having this well-deserved vacation.
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