March 28 2006

Hi everyone, I can crawl everywhere now.


 

Wuhan street views

Wuhan is much less of a tourist city. There were not many westerners here and we got lots of stares. Last photo shows a small bakery where we found breakfast one morning. Middle photo shows all the little shops. You would go down the street and there were always thousands of these little shops selling things. Clothes would be along one section and food in another.





 

Wuhan Open air market

#1 - Lower left corner is a bag of toads you could buy. Also had live fish and eels you could choose.

#2 - Meat for sale.

#3 - Pig's feet on the right and squid in bottom left.









 

Wuhan budda temple

We traveled to Wuhan and went to a cool budda temple.

2nd photo shows the incesnse burning after people bow and pray with it they stick it in the sand.

3rd photo is a view of the area. Note the turtles on the flower in the water.

Last photo shows budda and a monk praying.





 

Pick your fish.....

This resterant in Tianjin also had tanks of fish and seafood that you could pick for your meal. Notice the sting rays in the last photo. You could pick any fish or crab or whatever and it was brought to your table. The live fish are always presented to your table for inspection before they are cooked. At one place, they brought a huge lobster out and the someone at our table broke the antenna off of it and matched the break up when the cooked lobster came out so we were sure we got what we picked.

Another place in Tianjin had the lobster come to the table sliced raw to eat. The antenna and legs were still moving around on the plate when it was going around on the lazy susan.

Turtles and Sharks and Seals

I just noticed that all of the blogs I have been posting for the last week are being held up because my blog has been listed as spam for some reason. I requested that they unlock my blog but I guess we will have to wait and see if any of these see the light of day.

One day in Tianjin we went to a resturant that had some huge aquariums and even a seal tank.

Tianjin views

The best part of the chinese millitary museum was the ancient weapons.

Top 2 photos showed ways they defended the Great Wall. third photo shows firework propelled arrows. Last photo shows some sling shot devices.

We stopped by a chinese millitary museum today.

More rocket photos for Andy.

Andy, I saw rockets today!

3rd photo shows the satellites that came from the top of the rockets.