Tian Fu Sunshine Chengdu

We awoke this morning to bitterly cold weather---no snow—so we are thankful. Our hotel is having some issues with hot water, so showering is just cruel. The hotel we are staying in is totally Chinese--- so…for breakfast it is “good bye” omlette and hello to bean curds. We haven’t seen one American anywhere in Chengdu in 3 days. We have also had some difficulties with the internet, but think we’ve got it ...

... 3 fois la dose recommander de sucre par l'association des sucromanes pis un gallon de lait. Et je me suis assis avec un journal chinois des affaires. Pis j'ai souffert.<br>Pourquoi diable leur langue est base sur de la vieille divination qu'on<br>lancait des os dans le feu pis on checkait les craques? Je veux dire,<br>nous dans le bon vieu temps y'avait les hieroglyphes, mais y'a des<br>limites maudit. Au fait saviez vous que la lettre A descend<br>d'inscription qui etait ...

... we have more than 3 brands of sunscreen and that if I say this brand is screwy then it is bloody well screwy and I don't want to buy it, so there. I stormed off to the cashier to pay for my vitamins then strutted out, nose firmly in the air, only to have the sneer wiped from my face when the security buzzer went off because the cashier had forgotten to swipe my vitamins. New shop, new staff, new procedures ...

... cub and get her picture taken. She was so happy to have come through on her promise to her grandchildren to get her photo taken with a panda bear, and promptly declared it was well worth the cash! We all agreed that the highlight of the day was seeing how excited she was, and the pictures were definitely breath-taking--that "baby panda" was huge!<br><br><!--EndFragment--><br><br> <br>

... and went down to use the internet. Both of the good computers were being used. I tried the one that frustrated me last night and it is not working again today. The engineer was called by a manager, but the hotmail still did not work after he "fixed" it. I tried to get them to hang around while I tried hotmail, but they took off. Techies are the same everywhere you go! I let the girls at the front desk know that I was trying to use hotmail and wrote it down for them. I had to ...

... around by my self for a while. It was nice. Then we ate diner and went to bed. Tomorrow we are going on a glacier tour. It's going to be cold. I didn't tell the girls until after we got the tickets. We didn't know this until a few hours before we went to sleep but this tour is with 30 delightful Chinese tourist. My plan is to get off the bus and run and don't look back. Hopefully they won't look for me until 2 days later when it's time to go.

... January etc they laughed at my Chinese pronunciation) and I was suppose to meet up with this really nice Chinese girl my age who wants to improve her english but she couldn't meet because her mom was sick. So I came home and we went out. There I met with this guy from Virginia who has lived in Chengdu for 2 years with his family. He introduced me to his chinese friends and we just hung out. It was nice. Today we had planned to go as an ...

... met up with the witch doctor and some other people in a tiny van that had a lot of fireworks in it. We got a quick breakfast, which back home would usually be an egg sandwich or something, but here in China a quick breakfast is noodles and meat. It was actually a great meal, as most every meal is here. We got back out to his parents path around 11 and I was handed two huge wheels of firecrackers to carry back to the house. You ...

... enclosures, with adult, teenage and bubba pandas....they have to be the cutest and lazyest animal alive. Slouched on their back eating bamboo is all they do...they clearly don`t have enough energy to waste on making new pandas. The numerous school children about was also very amusing as they love to wave, point and say hello to westerners....Matt took full advantage of this and was pretty much treated ...

... more alert and territorial than the other pandas. We then had to go watch a video about the research base, which was a bit disturbing when they showed the captive breeding, giving birth scenes, and a first-time mother tossing her piglet around, not knowing what to do with it. We then went through a small museum which showed historical records of pandas throughout China's history. That finished our tour and ...