What a great weekend this was! Hope everyone's weekend was as good, if not better, than mine was!
Early June, I signed up for the Beijing Vertical Run, which is a race up 86 flights of stairs in Beijing's new World Trade Center Hotel. Friday evening, I went to the hotel to pick up my registration packet and to check out the course. The hotel is absolutely beautiful! And really really tall! The race was on Saturday, and because it was a stair race, they broke us up into different groups, which staggered every 5 minutes. I ran in the 11:10 group.
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| Bring it on, stairs. |
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| Right before starting the race. |
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| Right after finishing the race! |
After the stair run, I went home, showered, packed an overnight bag, and took the train to Tianjin! Whoohoo! When I got there, we had dinner and then went to ride the Tianjin ferris wheel, the largest ferris wheel in Asia (and, as my friends snickered, the only thing worth going to Tianjin for).
Before getting in line to see ride the ferris wheel, my cousin and I lit a couple of lanterns by the river. It was really a beautiful sight, as many couples, tourists, and other passersby held their lanterns, made a wish, and sent the paper light off into the sky.
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| A nice man helping me light the lantern. |
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| How romantic! |
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| Holding up the ferris wheel. I work out. |
On Sunday, my cousin and I went on another very interesting adventure: escape the room. I don't know if you're familiar with these "escape from the room" games, but I first heard of them as being an online game. Usually with some kind of sinister or horror backdrop, you're stuck inside a room and you have to click around and find various objects and clues to put together in order to you guessed it! escape from the room. Well, what we played in Tianjin was like the live version of that. It was AWESOME. You are stuck in a series of rooms with a number of other people (or by yourself, if that's your preference; in our case, it was just my cousin and me), and you have to look for objects and clues scattered around the room in order to unlock the door leading to the next room. Continue doing this for all of the rooms in the set, and voila! The place we went to was called "Mr. X".
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| Victory is ours! (After 2 hours of crawling around red-light lit rooms and screaming far too many times than was necessary) |
I love weekends in China. I'm really going to miss this!
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