I caught up on a lot of business. I had to get a new SIM card for my phone since my old one expired if you don’t use it for a few months. Seems like phone companies all over the world aren’t very fair, that’s why I avoid them as much as possible.
I also took the time here to apply for a visa to Myanmar, which I want to visit later in my trip. However, I didn’t have any passport sized photos. For about $3, I was able to get some taken and printed at a shop. They do it with a small digital camera, pirated version of Photoshop, and a small printer.
I got to try the new Line 10 subway that opened a few months ago. Almost every year there is some new project like this that opens here. I got to visit the family I stayed with and had dinner there. I remember before there was a lot of construction around the subway station there, but now it is all finished and a new skyscraper is in business.
I visited the Capital Museum which had a special exhibition on 5000 years of Chinese history. Since it was the last day of this exhibition, it was probably the most crowded museum I’ve been to in my life. The museum is probably one of the biggest I’ve seen in Asia. There was a line to get into the exhibition, but I didn’t want to waste them there and instead looked at the rest of the museum. Near closing time, they let everyone into the exhibition, so I walked in too and it was very hard to walk through there and I couldn’t see much. Overall it was an impressive museum though.