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Woke up at the hotel in Wuxi on Friday and before hopping the can to our subcontractors, wandered for a few minutes on the grounds of our hotel, which is a resort on the lake, and is quite serene. There was a guy practicing Tai Chi beside the lake, but I didn't get a decent picture of him.

Our subcontractor's office headquarters is also on the lake, and is basically a couple of buildings arranged in a garden.

After this, we rode the van to Shanghai, then fought over who had to pay the driver for a while. After checking in, a couple of us to see everything that's going down in Old Town, and to buy crap. I got a new Go set and a bunch of Christmas presents that I'm not going to describe here,

bigbrownhound, so stop snooping.

Afterwards, we headed back to the hotel and had dinner at a lovely and crowded Italian place called Di Marco's, where champagne, campari, salad, fettuccine alla carbonara, pear tart, coffee, and two shots of grappa set me back almost $25, which is the nice thing about Shanghai.

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Then this morning, we caught the plane to Beijing, and I must make a note of the crabs available in the airport snack shop,