HothAdventuresInChina

Xitang
Last weekend I went on a little journey to the little watertown, Xitang,(ok only 500,000 people) about 1.5 hours driving west of Shanghai. It's really only about 50KM, but traffic, oh, the traffic.... The town is where a portion of Mission Impossible 3 was filmed. My trip again was with my Chinese family, this time it was 7 plus me. Since there aren't any seatbelt laws, except for the driver and front passenger, we decided to cram everyone into my van, so off we went Saturday after lunch to Xitang.

The family photo

Young couples holding hands in public, this is a new thing in China. The 20 somethings are quite progressive, it'll be interesting to see how the next 10 years goes.

The map of Xitang

I finally have been able to get a portion of my Chinese family to take an American photo. We hug and smile!


My bed at the guest house we stayed. Ohh, how my back hurt the next day! But such a fun experience, I didn't mind.A little shopping, what cute shoes!And fun clothes, the shoulder wraps on hanging on the far wall were 30cny, $4USDTime for teaAnd Chinese Poker, argghh, I cannot hold 27 cards in my hand at one time!

This cat had the neatest eyes!And quite mischievious trying to get a fish hanging to dry.What is this? I think it's dried ginger....Those green wrapped things have rice and pork in them. They're good.Maybe it was in our dinner somewhere...The boats on the river... How beautiful

It rained really hard on Sunday and people were still working and washing their mops in the river. The big birds were taking a bath. I think they were some sort of crow.

Umm, I'm in love. this little girl was so cute, I couldn't resist.These are little candle boats that you buy, make wish, each color has a meaning and then float it on the river.A little music? OK, we couldn't play but this instrument was gorgeous!And I bought a new hat!But she could play music wonderfully.

And finally, a few translation issues...