You Dim Sum You Lose Some: Week 8 picture post

Furniture Shopping and Karate Chopping

Laura discovers the Guangfo subway line.

All subway stops have a 7-Eleven. AS IT SHOULD.

This baby is mid-poop and we all know it.

This kid had like 5 straws in his mouth

We arrive!

This woman was in a DEEP sleep. One of the literally hundreds of people napping at IKEA

Ikea was very crowded. In China? A crowded place? Shocking.

Laura and a skyscraper. Not the Canton tower

Cool fountain wall

Chinese style

The subway home was crowded too...

So this is one of our classrooms. Specifically this is Laura's 1st grade room. We didn't do any of the decorating, nor are we allowed to change it up very much.

Standing at the assembly for Teacher's Day

The bizarre skit thing. Not sure which child represented Chairman Mao

Martial Arts man, classic teacher's day event.

Bad Monkey for our friend's birthday. The building was clearly designed for people who are of Asian height.

Saturday Morning. We found a park with the weirdest playground I've ever seen. They looked like rice paddies. Full of stagnant water. The kids loved it.

Someone's pet cat. Everyone likes having pets here, and their favorite thing to do is to chain them up to something and leave them for 12 hours at a time!

The cutest lil' tree you ever did see

Chinese gate

We finally bought the cool boy chips! They were just okay

On our way to Zumiao temple. Laura gets lost.

Almost there

I've got a golden ticket!

The entrance gate to the temple park

The Ip Man museum in the temple park

Some of the memorabilia from Ip Man's life

Ip Man: Ghost Puncher

His sparring dummy

The "Double Dragon Wall"

We opted for this pose because it best covered up all of our disgusting sweat stains

Photo op!

Laura gets a lesson

It was particularly interesting being in the park and surrounded by buildings and artifacts from 19th century China while still being able to see skyscrapers

In a different museum area, this time for Huang Feihong, another martial arts legend, and also a soldier I think (the translations weren't very good). These were some of his weapons.

My favorite part of the Huang Feihong museum was all of the Oil Plintings

Some of the incredibly intricate rooftops

Inside the actual temple. Here are some 19th century ceremonial spears.

This amazing looking thing is actually a wooden table that was carved and then covered in gold

This seemed like an ideal place for some panorama shots (I'm a sucker for panorama shots)

Another turtle shrine! This one only had about 30 turtles in it. LAME.

"The wishing tree". People put prayers and wishes on the little red banners. The higher up you can throw the wish, the better.

Koi pond

We caught a classical music/opera show. It was over 2 hours long, so we didn't stay for the duration. We got to see some amazing traditional costumes and dances. The musicians all played classical Chinese instruments except for one guy who strangely had a tenor saxophone...