Johan and I spent a good 8 hours in the coffee shop today discussing business stuff. It's nicely air conditioned and the food there is not too expensive so it was our "base" for the day.
Before leaving to come home around 8:30pm we went to the 7-11 in the station and bought some diner and beers. Johan had been meaning to meet up with his neighbour "Jeff" for some beers so we met up and sat on the curb on these red and blue plastic kiddie chairs chatting. Jeff didn't speak any english but we were able to "gambuy" (cheers!) our drinks. Jeff also brought out his small little white terrier dog for a few minutes. really cute! Maybe only a little bit larger than Keri (Pearl & Rich's dog). When Johan wasn't looking he did a small pee on the side of johan's bag of beer. For some reason I didn't tell him. lol. shhhhhWhile sitting on the curb I saw my first cockroach (first one outside of a zoo that I I can remember). It wasn't as freaky as I thought. It was maybe a bit less than 2" long and .5" wide. Had a really small head, and it couldn't fly, so that automatically makes it a bit less freaky. I only saw one for the longest time, but once I started walking around slowly I saw maybe 4 of them. Most of the time they're sitting still just moving their antenna's around, but once in a while it would scurry around (actually they are pretty quick). I also saw a dead one on it's back. There were a ton of ants slowly moving it into a crack in the ground. I'm sure this is what inspired Elton John when he wrote the lyrics to "The Circle of Life."
In addition to the cockroaches there were several bats flying around the street lights above our heads. They seemed friendly and were fun to watch while I listened to the mandarin conversation going on around me.
That's it for tonight! Wan An ("good night"! I learned this phrase tonight)
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