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This Harbin continued...
So we run over to a dumpling restaurant and have lucnh for four which looked more like Thanksgiving dinner Chinese style then a lunch these people should be huge by the way they eat.
We head over to the Orthodox Church and then a swing through a market to look at ???? everything you could ever think of hanging from a hook.Heading back to the hotel around four o'clock for a breather we warm up in the bar me with a Corona and Joy with a cold "Coke with ice"
Six o'clock sun is down we head over to the Ice Festival finally,passing Chinese colorful lit trees with led lights everywhere.The Asians really would put any guy back in Delaware to shame with his little light display.We arrive at Ice Festival front in center wowed by the lights.
Neon everywhere the biggest ice buildings I have ever seen,so solid the ice it seemed harder then cement.There is no way to take a picture or describe the visual sensation of the enormity of these carvings and how did they build it in only a month. We walked around for two hours in what seemed like 30 minutes.Then we saw it! The Great Wall of China super slide no children under 14 allowed! We wait 30 minutes to get a run on this baby.Joy goes first me I take up the rear.I would say a football feild long slide you seem to be doing 40 mph on a plastic garbage lid but not to fear the Chinese have devised a braking system! The last 30 yards you fall probaly 40 feet there is a guy to my left I watch him as we increase speed, Wham his plows into a pile of snow 20 feet high and disappears! Hmm....is this going to hurt!.....it's much too late to do anything about it.Thump I am buried into the snow drift I hear Joy laughing but I see nothing and then two arms pull me out ALIVE. I have snow in places snow should not be but I just had the time of my life!
Wait a minute now we need a coffee to warm up so we sit down in a small building and sip coffee as a bear does jump rope and house cats jump through rings of fire...we are still in China. Heading out there is a band of women dancing and singing some song that every Chinese seem to know and if you know me I loves dancing Chinese women so I join in. Everybody wants my pictures I am a star in China!
Well the night grows old and we have an early morning flight and we need some real Chinese food. We stop at a Chinese BBQ where every part of the chicken is BBQ on a stick including the head by it's slef (who's eating that?"We crunch down some shirmp,bread and Harbin beer and call it a night.
Next morning we are off to Philippines via four different flights and flying with the Chinese is an adventure in it's self.We have arrived Philippines and warming up so I gotta run stay tuned for more!! Cheers
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