Day 4: Monday in Changsha

Jet lag at 1:50am.
Maybe I went to bed too early. I’m pretty happy with the hotel.  It’s the 3^rd or 4^th time I’m staying in this hotel over the past a few years. Don’t think I’ve stayed in any other hotels that many times.

Went back to bed at 5am and waked up again at 8:30am. Got up and went out to the “no name noodle” place next to the hotel for a bowl of rice noodle.  After that went around the neighborhood and got a haircut. The hair dresser was nice and I like the new short style.

Went back to the hotel room to take care a few emails. Cousin ZT made a reservation for lunch with everybody who’s available, that’ll be everybody except uncle 4 and his wife. They were at the Children’s hospital taken care of my cousin FY’s son, the only 4^th generation male bears the family name.  I went to the hospital visited them last night and saw him for the first time.

The lunch was okay. The room was a bit small for 12 of us. Grandpa was better and he can now recognize I’m his son’s son. Maybe he’s playing with us yesterday? 

After lunch, cousin ZT took me to the local electronics market to check out some HD media players. These are Linux based video play back devices for about RMB 500 Yuan.  I believe this is the trend to replace DVD players including BlueRay. Of course, many TV manufactures have similar functionality integrated into the TV. Looking at our new 55” Sony, the media files support and network capabilities are still lacking, though.

The rest of the afternoon and early evening were spent with family.  Took the 10pm over night train to Shenzhen.