Day 7 – Happy Buddha and McDonalds
10/14/2009 05:41:00 AM
Following the temple we ended up in the Number 1 Chinese Medicine Muesuem. They mix EVERYTHING together to cure all your ailements. Unfortunately when Martha (one of our fellow tourist) asked about something for snoring, they told her “we no have anything to kill that”! We all busted out laughing at their response to her question. It might have had to do something with her snoring or rather growling like a lion to imitate her sounds. They might have thought we were asking for something to kill lions!
Following the temple we ended up in the Number 1 Chinese Medicine Museum. They mix EVERYTHING together to cure all your ailments. Unfortunately when Martha (one of our fellow tourist) asked about something for snoring, they told her “we no have anything to kill that”! We all busted out laughing at their response to her question. It might have had to do something with her snoring or rather growling like a lion to imitate her sounds. They might have thought we were asking for something to kill lions!
During our bus trip from Suzhou to Hangzhou, Bill (our national guide) recounted his life story from the small village where he grew up as literally a poor farm boy, passing the national exam to attend college, joining the “Red Guard” that followed Mao Zhang Tsing and his adventures in the revolution in China. He even brought along his red arm band that distinguished him from others during the revolution. Bill definitely has had some very interesting experiences growing up in China.
During our bus trip from Suzhou to Hangzhou, Bill (our national guide) recounted his life story from the small village where he grew up as literally a poor farm boy, passing the national exam to attend college, joining the “Red Guard” that followed Mao Zhang Tsing and his adventures in the revolution in China. He even brought along his red arm band that distinguished him from others during the revolution. Bill definitely has had some very interesting experiences growing up in China.
Sean was getting tired of always having “Chinese” food and last night he ate lite at dinner because he spotted a McDonald’s just down the road from the hotel. Guess what he had for dinner! LOL Honestly the food has been great but as the tour goes on we are all definitely craving our home cuisines. Right now the majority of us are craving Mexican food. I guess that has become so ingrained in our culture we have accepted it as “American”. Even the Starbucks fixes, that we are getting every once in a while are not enough to stop the cravings for home cooking.
After dinner, Tricia and I paid to go see a fantastic show at West Lake. It was directed and put on by the same Chinese director that put on the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremonies and it was worth every cent of the $33 we paid to attend! It was put on in the lake … yeap I said “in the lake”. The performers and actors seemed to walk on water and along with the lighting the effect was magnificent. The “stage” was about 5 acres of water surrounded by trees, pagodas and Chinese typical houses. All lite up with special colored lighting that flowed with the music. Since it was at night, photography was not really possible; even though I attempted to capture one of the scenes.
One of the several Buddha's in the Lingyi Temple
A small piece of Chinese History - Bill Huang's Red Guard arm band
Sean with one of the monks
At the market outside the Number 1 Chinese Medicine Museum
Look at the Happy Buddha!!
Sean getting his "Big Mac" fix
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