Guilin

A quiet day today. Took advantage of the hotel spa and did some
shopping in town. Guilin is a small and much more relaxed place than
the others we have visited.

I have to admit that I'm getting sick of eating with chopsticks. No
wonder the Chinese are so small. It is so tiring to eat with
chopsticks.

My hip is holding up as well as expected given that I had surgery just
5 months ago. All of these hotels have had pools and gyms so I've
been able to keep up with my exercises.

I'll close with a note on the horrible jobs we've witnessed:

window cleaner 102-stories above Shanghai, tending to the flowers on
the median of the highway with nothing but a prayer and an orange cone
to protect you, sweeping the middle of the highway in Guilin with a
broom and not even a cone to protect you and carrying people up and
down to view the rice terraces.

We leave for Hong Kong tomorrow. Last city before we return home.