Birthday weekend - Sanya, Hainan Island, PRC

Our first night at the Mandarin Oriental on our deck. The weather was hot and humid but who cares if you are at the beach or near a pool, right?!
The hotel property has 3 pools and lots of little corners with neat seating areas.









Dinner on the beach, we ate here every night!
This was a spicy chili mango martini with fried chili pepper chips and spicy nuts.
Dim Sum lunch, not everything on the plate tasted good. The second from the left was a bit like Wonder bread pressed into a round form stuffed with sweet chinese bbq pork - yuck.

What a wonderful birthday present to get to go to a tropical place in China. We also spent one morning cycling around the island, too bad once you are off the spectacular property it looks like a poor third world country. The whole island seems to be under construction for the Volvo Sailing Cup in 2012, Sanya is the third stop on the round the world sail.

Painting

After being bored with the beige color throughout the apartment we decided it was time to make a change. So we had the bedroom and office painted while we were away for my birthday weekend. Birthday weekend post to follow.

Here are the before and after pictures.



Doesn't it look nice? Next month we may paint the living room and dining room - not sure if we are going with yellow or orange as the color selection.!!