Mel Smells Funny

Right, so obviously we have no comments whatsoever but that’s cool. It’s probably because David’s posts suck so clearly, I’m here to save the day with my post and take on the past week.

So as of right now we are on our second tour. We finished our first tour and went to four different cities just northeast of Hong Kong. Hangzhou, Wuzhen, Suzhou and Shanghai. The first three are very much rural and we went to a lot of parks but definitely not one to complain. If you’ve ever been on a walk with me in Markham, you’ll know that I’m a total sucker for some good landscaping. Wuzhen was pretty cool because it was like Asian Venice. There will be a bunch of pictures put up, not in chronological order I’m afraid but it’s worth going to see. The hotel however lacked greatly in terms of quality. Shanghai was probably the favourite because we, the Huang family, enjoy the city where most places are relatively clean. Most of all however, we got to stay at the Grand Hyatt which I actually saw a documentary on the discovery channel about. It’s like a cylinder and you can look up from the 54th floor and see all the floors above. Again, pictures below! (edit: she lied.. internet still sucks in china. I can’t upload photos.. yet)

Anyways as for where we are right now, we are in Shantao on a tour but really we are going to be separating from the tour to go pay respect to Grandpa. May he rest in peace. The bus ride was brutal, we got back from Shanghai at like 9 last night and had to get up at 5:30 in the morning and by 7 we started out 6 hour bus ride. Mostly, what I took away from it was that Chinese people are crazy drivers. All they do is honk and come ridiculously close to our mini-bus which by the way, has zero suspension. Also, we have seen many “English fails” as David likes to put them. Of all of them, my favourite has to be “Playboybao” (bao is bun for those who do not speak Cantonese) on one of the shirts. It comes to a close first with Abibas.

That’s it for now guys. Just a brief recap of the past few days from me! I’ll keep you posted


Cheers

Mel

PS: See Papa Huang’s little story about David. Just note: Water is a tricky one.