Golden week is coming to a close and we headed over to the Marriott Hongqiao Hotel today to have brunch and watch the Shanghai Formula One race. Ina and her husband Rainer joined us as well. For some reason, every time the Formula One race is in town, it always rains. We got up this morning and saw the dark clouds. Tony kept hoping the clouds would disappear but to no avail. We watched the dark clouds roll in just before the start of the race. Like last year, the weather was bad and it rained....no...poured actually and we were glad to be at the hotel instead of at the track.Trust me, being at the hotel is not the same as being at the race track where you hear the sound of the engines roaring by but, it was nice to be able to watch the race and enjoy brunch at the same time and not get soaking wet. Everyone was anticipating that the McLaren rookie- Lewis Hamilton would win the race. He had 25 laps to go and due to a maneuver that put him into a sand trap, he was retired from the race. It was a tight race between Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and McLaren's Fernando Alonso. We were all voicing our opinions on the McLaren spy scandal but in the end, Ferrari won first and third place and Matthew and Tony were ecstatic.
Nice way to end the long week with a day at the races via a big screen television and lots of food and drinks.
