Silk and Trains. Day 4 & 5

Day 5

We got up early to take the train out to the next city. A very unique experience to say the least. So interesting how one area is so populated and built up, and in between the next, is absolutely nothing but rice. The train was super fast and made my ears pop a lot. I guess thats good! Some of Davids friends met us at the train depot and drove us to our hotel. We threw our bags in our room and went out for some Chinese fast food. The kind where you point at the picture to order. It upset my stomach, no more fast food for me. Once I recovered from that, we visited a park on top of a hill. I thad a great 360 view of the city. It's crazy, that Seattle is not even 1/16th the size of this cities bu

idlings. Imagine Seattle's highrises, times 1000. That's what it looks like. After that, I got to go to Wal- Mart!

Highlight! The most different Wal-Mart I have been to (we visit one in each place we travel). Picked up lot's of tea and candy. That was

about it. I learned how to take the metro back, instead of being lazy and taking a taxi. It wasn't so bad. And with the money we saved from the taxi fare, we got 'foot washes'. $10 for 100 min

utes of foot and back massage. They soak your feet in tea first

(to get rid of the smell). Super relaxing, and much needed after all the walking we have done. From there we headed to hot pot with his friends. Individual hot pot. Yummy! My favorite vegetable

tonight was the pumpkin. I like David's friends a lot. They are funny, and make fun of him a lot

. One of the ladies JUST got her driver's license, and rented a van for the day to take us around.

The drivers here are crazy. Not bad drivers, just crazy. You have to be a really good driver to survive the 'no rules' mentality ( you know, if there is a long line of people turning left and no one tuning right, get in the right lane to turn left with everyone

else....or if there is a lot of traffic going one way and not the other, use one of the other sides lanes...). Did I mention she is American, and

JUST got her license? She will be driving us around all day tomorrow.....

Here is our photo from the train.