A view overlooking West Lake.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
The Latest...
I'm still not able to post pictures on the site yet. Hopefully our internet will be back to normal soon. We'll be home on February 5th until the 23rd. We're really looking forward to seeing people during that time. Hopefully Mandy's cell phone will be working those three weeks.
This past weekend we traveled to Hangzhou - about a two hour train ride from Shanghai. It was cold and rainy, but it was still one of the most beautiful places we've seen so far. Mandy's friend, Jenny, is in town with her sister, Heidi, for two weeks. They came with us. We took Friday off from work and stayed over night. Hangzhou is home to West Lake (about the size of Lake Mille Lacs), a pretty popular tourist attraction. It has a couple of islands with ancient temples on them - amazing architecture. We froze, but we got plenty of pictures.
This past weekend we traveled to Hangzhou - about a two hour train ride from Shanghai. It was cold and rainy, but it was still one of the most beautiful places we've seen so far. Mandy's friend, Jenny, is in town with her sister, Heidi, for two weeks. They came with us. We took Friday off from work and stayed over night. Hangzhou is home to West Lake (about the size of Lake Mille Lacs), a pretty popular tourist attraction. It has a couple of islands with ancient temples on them - amazing architecture. We froze, but we got plenty of pictures.
Monday, January 01, 2007
Christmas in Hong Kong
Our internet has been screwed-up because of an earthquake in Taiwan. They say it could be some time before it's fixed - I managed to get this one picture of our trip to Hong Kong. Stay tuned for more soon!
Our trip was great - we love Hong Kong! It's a much cleaner city than Shanghai and the people are extremely polite. We stayed on Hong Kong (the island) and made our way to various parts of the city. The highlight was going to a place called The Peak - we took a cable car up one of the hills to a platform that overlooks the entire city. We got some amazing pictures up there. On Christmas Eve we tried to go to the Kowloon side of the city (it's the mainland side that faces the island) to get some pictures, but we got corralled away with thousands of people. The police were working some serious crowd control and we weren't able to get anywhere near our destination. A lot of the subway entrances were blocked off, so we had to walk for miles to get home. The restaurants were all booked, so we didn't get to eat until very late. Our only option was a sports bar in the hotel where we ate BBQ chicken pizza. At that point it tasted like the best thing in the world. On our other days we went to the south side of the island. We were on a double-decker bus and drove on some pretty narrow and steep roads - it was like an amusement park ride. It was worth it though, the beaches and sights were breathtaking.
Our time went extremely quickly, but we enjoyed the trip a lot. Hopefully I'll be able to post some more pictures soon. Hope everyone had a good Christmas! For New Year's we went to a little pub in Shanghai and saw a band play Chinese music with a few standards like "Freebird" and "We Will Rock You" thrown in. I've never appreciated those songs as much as I did that night.
Our trip was great - we love Hong Kong! It's a much cleaner city than Shanghai and the people are extremely polite. We stayed on Hong Kong (the island) and made our way to various parts of the city. The highlight was going to a place called The Peak - we took a cable car up one of the hills to a platform that overlooks the entire city. We got some amazing pictures up there. On Christmas Eve we tried to go to the Kowloon side of the city (it's the mainland side that faces the island) to get some pictures, but we got corralled away with thousands of people. The police were working some serious crowd control and we weren't able to get anywhere near our destination. A lot of the subway entrances were blocked off, so we had to walk for miles to get home. The restaurants were all booked, so we didn't get to eat until very late. Our only option was a sports bar in the hotel where we ate BBQ chicken pizza. At that point it tasted like the best thing in the world. On our other days we went to the south side of the island. We were on a double-decker bus and drove on some pretty narrow and steep roads - it was like an amusement park ride. It was worth it though, the beaches and sights were breathtaking.
Our time went extremely quickly, but we enjoyed the trip a lot. Hopefully I'll be able to post some more pictures soon. Hope everyone had a good Christmas! For New Year's we went to a little pub in Shanghai and saw a band play Chinese music with a few standards like "Freebird" and "We Will Rock You" thrown in. I've never appreciated those songs as much as I did that night.
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