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Bailey's Coffee and a little bit fancy

posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 1:26 AM | 0 cmnt/s

Today was a good day. A very nice day indeed.

The day started casually. Meandering down to the cafe at the villas. Waffles with double vanilla ice-cream for breaky. Then caught the taxi back to the YaShow markets for the fourth time for some last minute handbag shopping after mum and I had been advised by Carol that we wouldn't be able to get handbags as cheap in Bangkok ("what!? I'm going to have to pay more than $15 for a handbag!?!?") So more handbags... Too many handbags in total now.

After we declared no more shopping, we headed up stairs for a well deserved manicure and pedicure. Felt soo good. I am now one happy and relaxed camper.

Running out of time, we headed back to the villas to pack for our evening flight to Xi'an. Now, this is where things get interesting. We were supposed to be picked up by our driver to take us to the airport by 4pm. It is supposed to take about 45mins to get to the airport from the villas. So that means arriving at the airport and check-in in by 5 (check-in desks usually close and hour before departure) for a 6pm departure (for domestic flights you don't need to be there so early) 4.05 and he still wasn't there, ok not urged at this stage only a tad annoying. 4.10: still waiting.
4.15: worry starts to set in as we get a call to say that he is 10 minutes away
4.25: get a call to say that he is going to be another 5 minutes away... Shit, we're in trouble now
4.33: he finally arrives... So we have 27 minutes to drive to the airport and check-in. By this stage we are certain that we were going to miss the flight
5.00 on the dot: we arrive at the check-in desk and find out that the desk closes 30 minutes before departure for domestic flights.. We made it with 30 minutes to spare!!!

The flight itself was standard. Food was the type of plane food that you look at and think "how long 'til we arrive?!"

However, initial reaction to Xi'an upon arrival was very positive. It seemed a lot quieter and orderly compared to Beijing. Once we checked into the hotel, we wandered across to the Sofitel hotel next-door for a coffee... I ordered a Bailey's coffee. It was the most amazing coffee that I have ever seen! Topped with whipped cream, too :D

Certainly am a happy camper!

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