China
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Baochu Pagoda
On the 24th Matt and I went exploring downtown and ended up hiking to a pagoda that is right by West Lake. It was really cool, you could see the lake from one side of the mountain and the city from the other. I wish I would have known we were going to be hiking.. I wore heels.. haha!! My feet were pretty sore by the end of the day..! Even though I was a big dummy it was still a blast!
Six Harmonies!
Last weekend we went to a place called Six Harmonies Pagoda. It was built in 970 (unbelievable huh). Around the pagoda they have a garden that has around 75 mini versions of pagodas that are all around China. It was an awesome place.
This is the view from the top floor, it made me nervous to be up that high in such an old building, but it was still cool!
They had a gong that you could hit for each of the zodiacs, so of course I had to get a picture by my gong.
There were lots and lots of very steep stairs, haha! We were very sore the next day!
I thought I would try and be cool and pose like this statue. There were lots of people looking at me funny, I think trying to figure out what the heck I was doing.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Dinner At The Village!
Matt and I went out walking around a place called the village tonight. It is just a lot of little shops with people's houses around them. It is amazing to see the condition that people live in and makes me realize how blessed we are to have all the things that we have. Anyway, we stopped at a little place to eat. There was just a bunch of stuff on this big table that you could choose from, we chose three potato sticks, two meat sticks (we think it was lamb), and I had a corn on the cob. All of that was only 6 rmb.. so less than 1 dollar. Pretty amazing huh?
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Happy Lantern Festival!
Yesterday it was the Lantern Festival. Matt and I went out walking along one of the main streets. It seemed like Christmas back at home.. there were so many lights! It was an awesome experience!
I thought it was CRAZY how many people were out on the street! I felt like I was in Disneyland.. haha! SO many people!! It was so much fun though!