CJ and I left for Chongqing on Tuesday after his class. Christina had been there since Friday for training for her job. I had to go to the airport on Thursday for my flight home so we got to do a few things before we left. Christina met us at the bus station and went back to the hotel where we were going to stay. We then went for dinner and I was soooooo glad to get to go to a Pizza Hut. I had eaten enough oily fishy stuff and wanted something more normal. That really tasted great. It is a little different than the Pizza Hut here. They have a few other things on the menu and Christina ordered a fruit salad. It was more like a salad with fruit in it. There was a bowl of lettuce leaves and it was filled with cucumbers, tomatoes, apples and peaches and had a sweet dressing drizzled over it. Then next day we took a subway ride to see the Ancient city. It is a very old city with narrow streets and there are shops of all kinds. This is more of a tourist area and the place I found some great things to bring home.
This store was selling fried bread. There is a big mound of dough in the container in the front of the store and this old man had a big wooden pole and he was mixing or kneading the dough.
This lady painted Charles and Christina's name in Chinese and talked about what the other symbols were as she was painting. Of course she did it all in Chinese so I didn't understand a word she said but it was still cool. Then she put it in a frame and a little box. It only took her a couple minutes to do the painting
After that we to a taxi to another part of the city. There is an interesting little park here.. This is standing inside the building that had a little open restaurant that over looked the park.
This is standing inside at the restaurant area and looking out.
Behind this building is a waterfall.
Walk down the steps and through here.......
and come out behind the waterfall.
Go through the next tunnel and down some steps and cross this little bridge....
and it brings you down to the bottom....
I rubbed the Buddha's belly for good luck. at least I think it was his belly....why is he smiling?
They were getting ready for the Autumn Festival...but I thought it was interesting that they had mums, and poinsettias together on the display.
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