Bad luck, Shopping, and Train again

Sunday June 27, 2010

Today we woke up, realized that our shower had no hot water(ironic since our room in Kunming is titled “Jank Room”, and so we showered in the boys room. Rachel and I are cursed with bad rooms. Kayla, Rachel, and I were all staying in a triple room. We ate some snacks, and then went to lunch with the tour guide to make up for the bad lunch the day before. We shopped for a very long time. This is because our checkout time was noon, and we weren’t meeting until 8:30 that night. All around our hotel was “Old Town.” This area was mostly all walking, and was basically one huge market. We did lots of bargaining, and I made a few friends with shopkeepers. Some, however, ended up getting mad at us because we knew they were trying to rip us off. We walked down to the Black Dragon Pool, which was pretty fun. I got some Chinese painting there, which was the main thing I wanted from this trip. I love them. We ate dinner at a random restaurant we found, which was open air and overlooked the alleys. People kept taking pictures of us while we were eating, which was interesting. At one point, workers lined the road on both sides and started singing. It was fun. We were all exhausted, but couldn’t go back yet. We kept shopping, and finally it was time to go. We went to the train station, which was a lot smaller and not as nice compared to Kunming. Our train ride was more interesting, because we were surrounded by drunk people. One guy kept following Justin, which was very interesting. We forced Jeremy to make a door our of his blanket again because of it.