Public Transport on Rehersal Evening.

Sunday was Wayne's BBQ on his rooftop balcony. It also was one of several evenings leading up to National Day for parade rehersal. The rain was not planned though it had been raining whole day. It stopped just enough for us to start the charcoal fire, cooked and finished the food.

As soon as we bid LY and SS goodbye, I regreted not taking LY's offer to send us home. No taxis to be found anywhere. Some key roads were closed for the National Day parade rehersal. The main subway line we needed to take was shut down too. So we walked to the nearest bus station and waited.

The first bus that came by was sardine-packed. Luckily another less crowded bus arrived immediately after and we hopped on. We knew it was going towards Carrefour direction, at least bringing us closer to home. Asked the lady conductor where we should get off to change into Bus 605. Right in front of Carrefour.

Another 300m walk to the another bus stop (珠江帝景）and another 15mins wait and we got on Bus 605. Hurray!

Congested traffic all the way, but it got worse as soon as the bus turned into Chaoyang Lu. The traffic was at a stanstill. Our bus driver turned off the bus engine. We opted to get off and walk. No more rain then. The traffic lights under CiYunSi Qiao were altered to ease traffic along 4th Ring Road, at the expense of all traffic on Chaoyang Lu. Took 90mins to get home instead of the usual 15.