Saturday, December 6, 2008

Another guest done...

Wow - it seemed quicker then our usual guest visits, but Emily left us this morning for that nice long flight back to the States. This trip seemed much more intense, and Tina and Emily were always busy. I'm mainly talking about the fact that we didn't get nearly as many guest posts out of Emily as we did last time - we were a little disappointed.

Emily is quick to point out that last year when she visited Tina would go off to school in the mornings or the afternoon and leave her alone for several hours where she could easily write without any interruptions. This trip Tina was always rushing her out to the market or the tailor or some other place that they needed to see. I suppose that's a valid argument, but we still would have enjoyed it slightly more if she had had time to write one of two more so that we could enjoy our time off of posting for just another day or two.

Not that I'm saying we don't love writing the blog, because I know you mainly read to know what we are thinking and doing over here....

Friday Tina took Emily for a foot massage and a return trip to the tailor so that Emily could pick up the goods that she ordered, and then I guess a lot of other things that managed to keep them busy.

Emily's final foot massage - notice that nice new purse of hers....

From there we all went over to, you should all know this by now, Temptations for dinner and some wine.
Tina, Siew Hong, Emily, Siew Yih, and Mark

They had a barbecue with meat, vegetable, and seafood kabobs, an excellent salad and then a nice lemon tart. All was happiness, and a was just a simple nice relaxing final dinner for Emily's trip to China.
Tina and I with Siew Yih.

We came back early so that we could download photos and I could work to transfer all of ours to a memory stick for Emily to take back with her. We are getting better prepared and now are able to have our guest leave with a complete set of photos to remember the great time that they had with us. It only took us seven guests to figure this out - but those comment cards we make you fill out at the Wichmann B&B do actually serve a purpose...

Wichmann B&B overall rating is now a pretty good 8.5 out of 10.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Mark and Tina!!

I made it home safely! I left Shanghai at 6pm and arrived Chicago at 5pm same day ;) I'm already missing you guys... Thanks again for everything!

BTW, I give the Wichmann B&B a 9. I would give you guys a perfect 10, but I had to deduct 1 point because of blog duty... Just kidding!

Hope you two are getting some rest and enjoying a guest-free apartment. Miss you!

Love,
Emily

Mark said...

Ah, well we are glad that you made it back safe without any problems. We hope that the jet lag doesn't keep you too drowsy for the next few weeks. We will see you in Chicago at the beginning of next year, in just a short few weeks...