We end the day, Friday December 5 at the Howard Johnson in Guiyang. We are responsible for our own dinner plans. My room is very cold and the heater isn’t working. The view outside is nice but the air is very polluted here. The apartments have water catchers on the roofs and I can see them form my 10th floor window. I decide to join friends for dinner at the hotel. The staff here speaks very little English and makes ordering a challenge. Many people are ordering western food and the cooks are trying to keep up with the demand. One of my friends orders pizza. We are surprised when the pizza is about 3 inches think. The pizza is stuffed with vegetables! Yes, vegetables under the cheese! I tried for dumplings. The waitress said they were out so I ordered noodles. So, I end up with noodles and dumplings!! We had fun!
After dinner we walked the street outside and created a stir. People are stopping and staring at us. We are very different to the citizens here. One short redhead, a short African American, and a tall blond, not the normal Guiyang group of people to see on the street here and we laugh about our stares from people. The people in the south of China are short and the taller people are in the north of China. We return to the hotel to prepare for a great trip tomorrow.
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