Hyatt Star Hotel Qingdao

... views are spectacular, and somehow it also has the glimse of lifestyle from a big city. Thus to say, mixture of everything.

Definitely worth the visit, and the coldness...


Hightlights of visits:
. The Protestant Church(基督教堂 )
. Jiaozhou Governor's Hall (提督府), office building of former German governors [Gouverneurspalast] and former municipal government

... down the hills, we finally settled on a slightly outward hill...it's only 3:30pm and the sun is already preparing for the day-off......Point to note for the sunset fans, you gotta start early for that in Qing Dao. By 4:30pm the whole sunset process is done and we went for some city sightseeing, christmas trees and decos are all around already, nice lights there.

... 26041;知郤原來 ; / 不必盼蓬萊 ; / 已是埋藏心 ;內 / 蓬萊就是愛 ;
Listen to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N9TxBTq -wQ


Highlights of visit:
. Penglai Tourism-Vacation Area (蓬莱旅游ॷ 0;假区)
. Penglai ge (蓬莱阁)
. The Eight Immortals (八仙)

Occupied by Germans during WWII, beers have been a signature beverages of Qing Dao thereafter. Today we went to the Beer museum, seeing the 100 years of this well-known chinese beer. Enormous varieties, you name it, they have it. Awesome library of information!

It's also linking to the production packing session as demo, cans and bottles are all in ...

We started with city tours to tower, St.Michael's Cathedral.

Finally, we setup our tripods in Zhan Qiao (Pier, 栈桥), at the temperature of -6 degrees for night scenes capture.....runny noses, frozen hands, shaky lens...

Highlights of the day:
. Ba Da Guan (Eight Great Passes, 八大关), the older area of town with some surviving German and Japanese architecture ...

... to us while we ate, and then brought out some type of liquor that looked and smelled like bourbon. He poured himself a while popcorn tub of it, then poured a shot size into a bowl and pushed it to Brett. At first, Brett looked at it questionably, but then finally tried a small sip after the guy took a big swig and we knew it was ok! The guy's bowl was sloshing over the whole time as he talked, and he kept saying "Chers" and drinking a ...

... given housing by the company. Often this arrangement is shanty housing at the construction site. Next door, there is an office and a 2 story dorm on the edge of the giant hole. Who knows how many migrant workers are crammed into this home. Factory work in China, which we all know has exploded over the past 20 years, often supplies it laborers with housing and food. Working 6 day weeks for a few dollars a day, workers migrate from very ...

... had gone to another one, but in the long run it doesn't really matter. The temple was very pretty (and bright orange!) and had lots of different shrines and things inside of it. Then we made it back to the subway station to get to the train to go to Kobe. When we got to Kobe, we dropped our bags off at the ship and decided to go to the aqualife park that was there - kind of a mixture between an aquarium and SeaWorld. According to a brochure that we had, there was supposed to be a piranha ...

... and fill out some forms for departure from China (because I traveled Indy I hadn't done this yet). Then I came back down and went back to sleep. After lunch I loaded my pictures onto my computer and now I'm writing this. I'm going to go send this and the Vietnam entry off to Carissa now so she can post them (my savior!) and then get to work on a paper I need to get working on. I'll be home in Four Weeks! Can't wait to see everyone!

... run in Qingdao. The director of www.myredstar.com has recruited Andy and I to help redesign his website to become less magazine oriented and more business/ lifestyle driven. Although we don't have much experience with web design, we came up with a spec for him, and we are going to try to implement it within the next week or so. We'll see how much time I have left over after teaching and web designing. Other than that, our time has been spend exploring different parts ...