We were hanging out at the beach today and Alanna and I decided to go for a walk along the beach. John was listening to his headphones. We were gone about 45 minutes or so, but when we came back our beach blanket was surrounded with people and there was a police man there. Someone had apparently taken our bag and walked off with it. The bag was sitting behind John but he had on his big headphones and didn't hear. There were people sitting around us but they didn't do anything to stop it I guess. One man motioned for John to look behind him which was when he realized the bag was gone. I remember reading something about how the Chinese will just watch petty crime happen and not do anything about it. So most likely they saw someone take our bag, waited until the guy had left and then alerted John to the fact that it was gone. Maybe it just happened really fast though and no one had time to think to stop the thief. We lost our cell phone, the camera, about a hundred and fifty dollars and the key to our hotel room. The police called our hotel because the hotel printed their name and the room number on our key, which is really a bad idea, but Emily (who is also here, but was at the hotel sick with a stomach bug) went and got our passports and the rest of our money to keep in her room. When we got back to the hotel the first thing they said was "hello, you need to pay for the key you lost today." Jerks.
Anyway it could have been worse, but it wasn't a great day. I'm ready to go home now. Thank god our passports weren't in the bag.
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