Mood: Sleepy
Music: Trip Doubt 'mix tape'
Today started fairly early but my body clock was telling my that I'd slept in loads by 10am and I think I persuaded myself to believe it. After quite a while, Emily awoke and we headed down to breakfast in the hotel. The hotel had several different manned stands, including a sushi bar, a curry bar and an area dedicated to the cooked breakfast.
After brunch we made the trip in to the central shopping area in order to walk to the botanical gardens. This large public area has a fantastic amount of biodiversity and the national orchid gardens. There are several species of orchid on show that have been created specifically for the visits of foreign heads of state and the like and they are very weird and wonderful for flowers.
We spent almost 4 hours walking through the gardens and it was early evening by the time we got back. We did take an ice cream break half way around where I picked up some sweet corn ice cream... Very very odd, but nice. As it had been about 30 degrees C and very very humid all day we both needed to change before going to one of the restaurants on the hotel.
As most of the set Chinese menus left very little option but seafood we each took a wild stab at the a la carte menu and did fairly well with respect to volumes of food and food selection. I'd love to know if there is a sneaky way of getting crayfish out of their shell using without resorting to using fingers or knife and fork while eating with chopsticks!
Enough for now. My body clock is slightly out of kilter. I think I have got Aussie time nailed bang on but I'm now 3 hours behind that!
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