ZhangJiaJie Day 2
Pouring Rain. We got up early, ate our breakfast and hobbled off to catch a taxi to spend the next 5 hours walking along the stream (not many stairs). This area taxi drivers don’t use their meters – you have to ask for the price before you get in. Sort of a pain because you know you will be ripped off cause you are a foreigner. We got a sort of fair “laowei” price and rode for 30 minutes to another part of the park. We bought a 3 Yuan raincoat (46 cents) and had umbrellas but within 1 hour our pant bottoms were soaked up to our thighs and Amy had to buy some plastic shoes because her sneakers/socks were soaked. Pictures were hard to take because our hands were so wet with nowhere to dry them. Amy’s camera finally stopped working and mine got too wet for me to chance using. After about 3 hours we “called uncle” and made our way back to the hotel to check out and start the process to get back to Changsha. One good thing was we were able to eat lunch in the same great restaurant across the street before we left. Bus ride home was EXACTLY 4 hours – left the station at 2:00 ‘on the dot’ and arrived the Changsha station at 6 ‘on the dot’. Amazing. After a couple of local bus changes we walked (again -in the pouring rain) to McDonalds where we ran into Cynthia and her BFF. We had a nice visit and then one more bus ride back home. Day ended with us arriving at NUDT at 8:15pm. It took me about 5 minutes to get up the 3 flights of stairs to my apartment because my legs were so sore. Amy’s apartment was on the first floor- not fair. I have to do more Wii Fit! –
