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Shenzhen Shenanighans

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March 2019 There has been a lot of China this year, but I wanted to share one of my more comical experiences of the traveling season.  Shenzhen isn't a particularly alluring city, but it has it's charms.  My favorite park in the world is there.  The food is good and generally, it's pretty chill.  On this particular occasion I had two goals for any potential downtime: go to the park and master the new camera and find a spa.  My colleague, who is a family man with season passes to Disneyland, recommended a place near our hotel.  I mention the season passes because the guy is about as nerdy, solid family man material as you can get.  This becomes important. So I am out on the hunt and Google and China doesn't always compute so I'm thinking the spa this guy recommend can't be too far. I find an elevator to some sort of lounge and thikg I've nailed it.  There is absolutely no question once I'm upstairs that I have stumbled into a parlor alright, f...