I'm back!

I am back in Shijiazhuang as of yesterday. If you didn’t know, I was traveling from January 22nd to February 22nd for the spring festival holiday also known as Chinese New Year. The Chinese New Year fell on February 7th, I was in Hong Kong at the time. I went to Beijing, Harbin, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macau, Sanya, and Haikou. I have many stories and not enough blog, so you’ll have to talk to me if you want to hear them. : P I will leave you with my favorite quotes and entertaining snippets.

Memorable quotes
-The leaf just lactated on me (from Sanya, Hainan)
-I’m taking off my pants! (Sanya, Hainan)
-Do you have putonghua (Mandarin) coming out of your ass? (probably in Hong Kong)

Highlights
-going in circles in Beijing (Temple of Heaven, the mall to the subway, our hostel)
-walking into a massage parlor and asking for lambsticks
-the preferred mode of transporting five people in a taxi which only allows four in Harbin and Tianjin
-finally climbing the Great Wall!!
-being fed by a policeman in Harbin (with his chopsticks)
-being stalked in Harbin
-real Indian food in Hong Kong! I died that night and went to heaven, I’m pretty sure.
-a group of about 10 foreigners singing songs throughout the streets of Hong Kong
-Erin and Jenna performing various Rent songs on the Hong Kong subway…which somehow led to the 7/11 crawl in Hong Kong (best idea ever)
-Hong Kong fireworks on New Year’s day, it doesn’t get any better than that
-climbing a mountain…or three with a man in shorty-shorts as our guide
-how Erin and I managed to lose two cameras with 2300+ pics, a passport, a phone, an iPod, a backpack, a cute D & G purse, money and became way too familiar with the Chinese legal system in two separate cities
-rickshaws and riding in the backs of trucks to go see volcanoes in Haikou
-the 5 hour standing train back to Shijiazhuang at the end of spring festival holiday