Thursday the 24th - half a bike tour!!

so now, I am actually making some progress here and will now let you know about my Thursday of last week!
That was actually already my last day in Beijing, I was still sick but of course wanted to go out anyways... who cares about health, rihgt?! so I thought lets hit the life-threatening-less-than-ruleless-traffic with the most frequently used mode of transport in Beijing - a bike (lalala ... there are 9 million bycicles in Beijing... lalala... thats a fact... lalala... ) so William, Jen and I rented some bikes and took of. After about an hour Jen, who was also sick, got worse and we had to go on without her... too bad. Hey Jen if you read this, are you better now???
well, so William and I took off towards the Silk market, where we arrived a little later... left the bikes next to the building, locked them and went in in the seach for a non-fake IPod... which I didnt find, instead we of course bought some other stuff... a new watch (pink with cute little diamonds) and a ring... and everythin so totally cheaaaaap!! I love Beijing!! well... after having satisfied my shopaholic character, we went back to the bikes, or at least you could say next to the building were we had left them. But the bikes were gone. Trying to get something out of the construction workers who slept in a mini bus next to it and the personel who seemed to try to order the traffic on this parking thingy there... we didnt have any success and also after a long search of the surroundings we found no bikes. Quite pissed off because of the caution money we lost, almost 20€, so a Chinese fortune, we took a bus to Wangfuyang Dajie, where we'd both been before, but just wanted to go again, for a bite to eat.
Our effort to forget about the bikes succeeded at the latest by the time we saw THE "snack" it should be today: living Scorpions (pics on pic-page ;) ). We just baught one stick with 4 of them... they were still wiggeling their tails and feet - until the guy in the booth (dont know if I would call him a cook :S ) threw them on the grill... where they starved, either because of the heat or because of the thing he put on top to press them onto it... who knows... ?? well... a minute later we were the proud owners of a stick of 4 grilled scorpions and it took quite some effort to take the first bite. However... "Augen zu und durch, ne?" we overcome our struggles and just bit in... and actually it was quite yummy, a little bit like potato chips.. quite crispy... and the guy who sold them said that the poison in the tail is actually healthy!! After having done this we were up for more.. but when we saw the little birds, ducklings, 5cm long and quite thick bugs and seahorses we agreed to save this until our next trip to Beijing and then had some real food, cause the Skorpions were not quite filling!
After that we just went back to the hostel ... I had to pack up, how annoying.
I had dinner that night with a new australian guy... quite yummy (its up to you to decide if that goes for the food or the guy!) ... and then it was ... Friday!