My mother and my little sister are coming to visit me for three weeks. This is going to be intense. My duties as a free tour guide include: setting up hair appointments, arranging accommodations, making restaurant recommendations, planning shopping trips, acting as a free personal shopper for relatives not coming to China, providing bargaining expertise, working as a translator and decoding nebulous statements such as "I want to go somewhere nice." Somewhere nice.... Inner Mongolia is nice, eating dinner in the Sheraton is nice, sitting on a mountain and drinking tea in a remote temple is also "nice." :) This trip will crush dreams and shatter illusions, mine as well as the people traveling with me. So, stay tuned folks this will be a laugh riot. A few minutes ago, I looked over at the computer
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