So I'm leaving in about an hour to head up to Beijing to finally meet Kevin's family for the first time! My teammates have been giving me all sorts of advice (mostly ridiculous) for "meeting the in-laws." Christina suggested I remember my proper verb tenses, after I talked about 2009 being "not so long ago." Corrine said I should pretend to have a face twitch. I said I have enough weird quirks that I hardly need to make any up. Matt and Andy, well, I won't repeat their ideas. But if you know either of them, you can pretty well imagine.
Anyway, it should be good. I am excited to hang out with them a little bit and see Kevin in the context of his family. I have to admit, I am even more excited to be with Kevin, even though I've seen him before. We just have one more time of separation until the end of this long distance thing!
We will probably go to all of the famous Beijing places - the Great Wall, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, etc. Ho-hum. Same old, same old. (I sound like such a culture snob. :) I will be able to take pictures again because Kevin is giving me one of his cameras to use since he has a cool new one to play around with. His brother Scott is also a serious photographer, so no doubt I will feel like a complete amateur.
We have definite plans to hit up Pete's Tex Mex, the best Mexican food and chocolate-peanut butter milkshakes in China. Actually, the best milkshake I've had ever. Same old, same old - but completely not ho-hum. We are staying at the Mac center, the center our organization has where we can go and stay pretty cheaply. I've never actually stayed there before, but I am excited because that place is sweet! It's like stepping out of China and into a whole other really nice world. Kevin said they even have dryers! There's luxury for you.
Well, my train leaves in about two hours. I plan on reading some really boring masters books and then drugging myself up with Dramamine and sleeping peacefully through the night. Or at least someone peacefully. Hopefully the people around me won't be smoking or drinking or singing loudly or any of that. Long underwear season is over, so they should keep all their clothes on. I appreciate that.
I'll put up some pictures when I get back!
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Did you go back in time as you wrote this post? At the begining, you were leaving in about in hour, at the end, two. Hmmm. Yeah, verb tenses are good. Listen to Christina. I thought of so many other suggestions... but I don't think you would appreciate them. Shame. =)
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