We're not going to do daily sight seeing in Beijing, since we did that last time we were here. Yanmei is visiting with friends and family. However last night we did go to Tienamen square. Unfortunately they don't let people in at night anymore.
The place we live has a reveille at 7:55am everyday. I've never seen that before, but I've only stayed in international hotels in China before. Yanmei hasn't seen it either. It turns out there is a military barracks nearby and that is where it is from.
The other strange thing is the lock on the apartment. If you lock it from the inside it can't be unlocked from the outside, and if you lock it from the outside it can't be unlocked from the inside! We didn't know this and Yanmei went out for a “short” time and I ended up locked in the apartment for several hours. Yanmei suggested it might be like that to keep kids from going out. I don't like it, what if there was a fire?
Many buildings in the US don't have a 13th floor, the same is true in China, but there is also no 4th or 14th floor, 4 being an unlucky number, so our 15th floor apartment is actually on the 12th floor.
-David
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