Fly to Hangzhou

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

We flew to Hangzhou. This is a beautiful town that not many Westerners visit. Many Chinese people visit this beautiful city for its beauty. This is a great vacation destination for the Chinese people. It reminded me of an East Coast resort town in the United States. Lots of expensive car dealerships and designer stores. We walked through a very crowded park at West Lake. People from the country who were visiting here may have never seen someone from the West. They were very curious and many wanted their picture taken with us. We had fun taking pictures of them taking pictures of us. Everyone was kind and we all had fun. We went on a boat ride around West Lake, too!

We got back to the hotel just in time to get dressed up in our best clothes to go to a fancy dinner at the Department of Foreign Affairs Department complete with name cards at each place, fancy dishes, a printed menu with the name of all the 10 courses we would be served, and more glasses and silverware than I knew what to use it all for. It was very lovely. We were seated at a very large round table covered with a gold colored tablecloth. We were treated like very important guests of the country of China. It was a very special experience.