Pictures from our Long Weekend

The weekend right after Thanksgiving, we had a long weekend trip planned with the whole group. We loaded up the bus early Friday morning and drove to Suzhou, a nearby water town. There we stopped at a silk factory, a museum, then loaded the bus to Nanjing.

When we arrived at Nanjing, the first thing we noticed was the traffic. While we were stopped in traffic we had the opportunity to watch a lit up sign spark, catch fire, then drop to the road. Needless to say this way amusing in many forms. Such as being morbidly curious, then scared, and somewhat amused.

At the Stinky Tofu place... too bad
 it was a really nice restaurant

For dinner our tour guide took us to a stinky tofu place. If you could imagine sewage and food thrown together... that is kinda close to the smell. It is hard to imagine that people love the food, too bad I cannot get passed the smell to try it.


On the way up to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen's
 mausoleum

Outside of the Ming Tombs

Day two in Nanjing took us to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen's mausoleum, the Ming tombs, and the Nanjing massacre museum. All of these places were interesting and full of culture.

We finished the trip off on Sunday by boarding the bus early and driving to a Bamboo forest. It was rainy, but I was happy to see the forest

bamboo

Bamboo Forest

 


Elephant outside of the Ming tombs

Street Vendor in Suzhou, I don't know what we
ate, but it wasn't bad!