We went to Tianjin (sp?) today for an entire day trip! It took about 2-2 1/2 hours to get to the cultural street - our first stop - because the traffic was so bad. It was interesting. Then, we went to a famous baozi restaurant. The baozi itself was good (baozi are buns stuffed with different ingredients) but it took forever to come out because there were so many obscure side dishes that tasted funny. Afterwards, a ton of us bought icecream bars from a street vendor for 1 kuai. Mine was this vanilla and chocolate one that was supposed to be a smiley face, but he looked like he was frowning, so I felt kind of guilty eating him.
Then, we went to a museum which had a cool photo exhibit but was pretty pointless because we got there at 4 and the place closed at 4:30. An interesting little note: at around 4, all of the escalators changed their direction to "down" so that nobody could go up any more floors. Clever, eh? Although it was really confusing cause I guess Sam and I managed to go up one floor right before the clock hit 4, so when we went back downstairs, everyone was wondering how we ever got upstairs in the first place. We were pretty flabbergasted too, until that little secret plan of the museum was uncovered. I really make it sound a lot more secretive than it really was. Probably everyone knew but us.
We didn't get home until 7:30. What a long, long, drivey day.
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