I figure since I'm on vacation I'm allowed to be a super slacker.  With that in mind I slept till like 12:30pm.  Well I was actually up by 6am, had breakfast, and then went back to bed at like 10:30am.  I eventually woke up at like 12:30pm and it was everything I thought it could be except it was a little too bright.  Oddly enough I spent the only sunny day of my visit tucked into bed.  But again, it's my vacation so I do what I want!  I was going to lie out and get a tan when the sun got around to the pool… but guess what… the freaking sun never shines on the damn pool!  WTF!!  That’s right… with the way the building is designed the sun never got high enough to shine directly on the pool.  So all those lounge chairs by the pool are totally worthless if you want to lie out in the sun.  LAME!!

 

After wasting most of the day I decided to at least go over to the observation deck at the 101 and check out the sunset.  For starters I assume there is 101 floors hence the name.  As I was sitting in the elevator flying upwards it stopped at the 89th floor.  I’m feeling ripped off now.  Honestly though, it doesn’t really matter since the place was so smoggy another twelve floors wouldn’t have made a difference.  Even still it’s nowhere close to how bad Beijing or Shanghai was.

 

Sure the building is kind of cool.  It’s nice to have that kind of vantage point.  However once you’ve been in a really tall building looking down, everything looks about the same no matter where you are.  Of all the heights that I’ve seen when it comes to tall buildings, I’d have to say Shanghai was probably the most interesting just because it wasn’t so high that everything seemed miniscule and it had a great skyline.  Too bad I never got to check out the Hong Kong skyline from way up high as I’m sure that would be a sight to behold as well.