Friday, April 15, 2016

Out of Order in dates but Guangzhou Explorations!

We went to see Batman v Superman and there was this Hulk Iron Man...I couldn't resist the picture!
Who would I be if I hadn't found another brewery in GZ???



 Neat decor inside!

And...entertainment? outside! They all just started singing this song A Capella outside the bar! China is weird. And awesome.
Neat view from my apartment...but holy smog.

As I was headed to work this lovely Friday morning... I saw them doing a dragon dance.

Just continuing down the street.
It was soooo cool!

This was referred to as "Ground Zero" of Guangzhou (obviously a much different meaning in America) but it was where Guangzhou was started, where Cantonese culture began. 
As immense as China is, Guangzhou is still ENORMOUS, I haven't even seen half of what I want! The days I end up wandering are sometimes the best. I try to remember to take pictures but, sometimes, in certain stores, or certain temples, I feel it's entirely inappropriate, so I keep it logged in my head. Here are some pictures of my latest wanderings:

I was wandering around trying to find the temple from the directions: Leave Exit B from the Metro, walk about 500 meters and you will see the Temple... no, just no. 

This was called "The Bride"

I tried to figure out what this building was, but from where the signs were placed, and how far out the fences were around it, I couldn't read them. I assume governmental something or another.

The temple was down a couple of blocks, around a corner and down a few more blocks... Silly directions....

One afternoon we went to the Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King. The reason this tomb was found was because they started to dig down to build a hotel in this very location, even though this area had a lot of rich history and culture already. Then, they discovered this tomb. Buried with more than 1,000 artifacts this king was buried with 15 courtiers, whom were buried alive to serve him in death, these included concubines, farmers, guards, etc. They even found remains of livestock and remnants of vegetables that were to feed him in the afterlife. 



It just so happened our "Regional Lunch" for Disney ended up on Brianne and Flik's birthdays. They were not entirely stoked for this. We had to come up with videos for "If your center were a TV show, what TV show would you be?" We decided to do LipSync Battle with Disney songs, it was a lot of fun. I did horribly but meh. Then, we had to do a skit/play/dance in front of all of Disney. Sharday and Mike were supposed to be in the front, however, Mike ended up not being able to soooo Haley got to do it!........ so not happy about it. I didn't want to do a dance to begin with. Nobody else volunteered. Gah. Anyways, our video got second place so I guess that's cool.
Then drinks...

Then a walk to KTV (karaoke)



I got a little picture happy...

Also, the food at the annual lunch was terrible..this is 13 Factories...where they have Chicken and Waffles...yup...

On another adventure, my roommate and I decided to go out to lunch, where we initially went had a sad face as the health rating, we decided against and came to this place instead! (The name is currently escaping me Luk something...) Anways, I thought the decor and atmosphere was pretty neat.


Egg rolls and sweet potato somethings


Flower tea! Yeah, it was interesting looking. Definitely something you drink with the lid still on so you get as few floaties as possible!

Mmm decent Chinese beer....



I ate poached frog for the first time! This stuff was CRAZY spicy but frog is pretty good! :)


1 comment:

  1. Looks awesome. Glad you are making the best of your time there. Miss you though.

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