Sunday, November 29, 2009

China Day 6: Hangzhou (..I think??)

I didn't get much sleep at all in Shanghai.. all because I stayed up late going through my pictures and updating my blog :P I even forgot to take pictures of my hotel room in Shanghai!! Booooo oh well. I forgot to take pictures of my breakfast too. It was just congee again though. I didn't even know where we were going..

Lunch
Snacked on my ..grapefruit? to keep myself awake. It's the same fruit I got that night wandering around the streets in Suzhou. It was so big, I couldn't finish it! It was still juicy after two days.

I didn't take much pictures because we just mostly went to tea places and I was half asleep. Fast forward to lunch>>

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Yummmm

The food re-energized me. After lunch, we were taken to another tea place but this time I took pictures.

Green Tea
Green tea

And then another tea place...

Chrysanthemum Tea
Chrysanthemum tea

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I wasn't interested in buying anything so I just walked around in the parking lot.

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I don't know who that is, but he must be important!

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Back on the bus with more snacking. Yes, this is the same sugar cane I got in Suzhou lol shouldn't have gotten such a long piece!

The bus took us to here.. but I don't know what this place is. What's those Chinese characters say??

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My tour guide buying tickets.

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It's hard to tell, but the floor is angled!

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I love my tour guide's jacket. I wanted to steal it.

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Dude doing magic

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There were a bunch of obstacle courses here. Of course me being a big kid, I had to go play.

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Oh man, I look so sleepy lol

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My tour guide. She's so cute!!

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Check out that balance!!

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After all that, we walked around some more and stopped to watch a show:

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Dudes were jumping through a ring of fire

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This girl was juggling a jar with her feet

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Then she started juggling a table

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This dude hopped from that bottom step to the top using only his head!!

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Then he started spinning rings! I wish I could balance.

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Now he's jump roping!!!

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This guy was their sifu aka master. He was throwing heavy solid balls up in the air and catching them on that little cup on his head.

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Pulled out an axe

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And started throwing them at the targets

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He asked for a volunteer and this guy excitedly jumped on stage. He thought he was volunteering to try to throw the axes at the targets, but the sifu actually meant a volunteer to stand right in the middle of the targets. That's when the volunteer tried to run away but he got pulled back and forced to position himself inbetween the logs lol

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lol @ his face. He shrunk his body down when the final axe was thrown above his head

After the show, we went to have dinner. I was still half asleep and forgot to take pictures of the food :(

And now.. NIGHT HAS COME

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We walked over here, and looks like they're announcing a show so we all walked into a theatre. Inside on a giant screen, it said "NO PHOTOGRAPHY" in Chinese characters. Of course, everyone being Chinese in the audience, don't obey the rules and everyone pulled out their cameras and snapped away lol I figured.. "Ok why not!" But I had to be more sneaky about it cuz my camera is too big.. excuse the head and shoulders!

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This was lasers pointing into the audience.. too bad there's a head blocking it boooo!!!

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And that's the end of the show!

It was a nightmare leaving the theatre. SEA OF HUMANITY!! Took eagle eyes to spot my tour guide in the crowd. After that, we hopped on our bus and were taken to the hotel.

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My bed

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Ahhhh what I've been waiting for all day. A real toilet :D

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