Penny and I rode a couple of buses there on a Friday afternoon and got to see the lights on the canals. We took the obligatory boat ride and lit a paper boat/flower candle (for a wish) and put it in the canal. We stayed in a very small hotel located in the old section of the water town and it had the hardest beds yet – which seemed impossible to be harder than the ones I have already tried in my other China travel adventures. The owner of the hotel actually walked the mile to the bus stop to pick us up and walk us back to his hotel. The “squatty potty” bathroom was the size of a small shower and also WAS the shower! No towels but the owner actually went down the street and bought us two new dish sized towels when we asked for some. Since all the hotel rooms are built inside these very old buildings I should have been really happy that we had indoor toilets.
