BeiHai

iPod songs on the way home: All John Legend and Anthony Hamilton (especially "The Day We Met", "Ordinary People", and "The Point of it All")

For all those that have read the previous post, you know that I went to Beihai last week. I went home after work, ate, and packed quickly. I took some random bus to Guangzhou that cost me about 5 times the bus I usually take. THEN I had to take a taxi and meet Audre and Monika. We then took forever to get a taxi back to Monika's but finally made it back. We went to sleep right away because the next day, we'd have to wake up at 4am or so.It was VERY easy to get a taxi to the train station, especially considering Monika lives in a place I'd call Bumblefu*k.

Train Station when we arrived in Guangzhou

Our train was late (the one time we come EARLY, the train is LATE... figures) We thought the universe was just trying to stop us from going on vacation as a warning. First, our hostel on the island (where we would stay for two nights) was cancelled, we all met at different times, took more than an hour from Guangzhou to find a taxi, and some other things I can't remember. On the train to Zhanjiang, all three of us slept.

Then we took some random private bus to Beihai. We got off at the train station, took a rickshaw to a gas station, and bought tickets there to Beihai (with the help of a girl who spoke pretty good English at the train station).

Rickshaw (our mode of transportation throughout this trip)

We sat on tiny stools on the bus then in actual seats (not enough room, of course).

When we got to Beihai it was dark and we took a taxi to our hotel. We went to dinner at a local seafood restaurant (there were plenty) and ordered by pointing at the fish in tanks... At least they were fresh.

We sat on the beach for a bit and the tide was SO low. Some people were lighting lanterns and letting them fly for the holiday (which was National Day Week), but actually I think they just letting these go on the beach. Some teenagers were so excited we were watching that they came over to talk to us and show off their English, which was pretty poor. Nevertheless, it was funny. I also practiced my Chinese.

Audre didn't feel like drinking after, but Monika and I (being the true blooded Polish that we are) decided we would keep drinking and eat some barbecue on the beach. We ordered two beers to begin with, two clams and sat down at this classy place:

Of course we ended up ordering more food and two more beers, which put us at a grand total of 42RMB (which is about $6 for those of you that are bad at conversions). Ahhhh and this is one of the reasons I love China.

The pictures under this post are also from this vacation. To be continued later, since uploading these pictures and writing is a tiring task. Hehehhe