青岛 Qingdao
Spring Break Pt. II
I would like to start off by telling you all a rather funny story that happened to me and my friends the day we were leaving Beijing to Qingdao. It was the most hectic day, ever. We got to the train station at around 9:00 p.m. and had an hour and a half to kill before our overnight train departed for Qingdao. Our train tickets had 22:48 written on them, and for some reason...we thought 22:48 = 11:48..and..of course we were wrong. We were sitting in a restaurant talking, eating food that we didn't even want, but had to buy in order to sit inside,,just waiting for our train. At 22:43 Jolie looks at her ticket and says..22:48..wait..isn't that 10:48? ..we look at her, she looks at her watch..screams "IT"S 10:43" and we literally sprinted out of the restaurant and down to our waiting hall. The ticket collectors and train conductors were yelling at us as we ran to our train, making it onto the train, just a minute short of our departure time. THANK GOD,,!
and this was the start of our crazy adventure in Qingdao,
us, after sprinting for our lives
the lounge in the hostel we stayed at-- very chill place with yummy breakfast every morning! I think we spent more time here than anywhere else..:)
Walking around outside
a rather hideous purple hotel by the beach
by the beach we walked along
and ran into Jihii's soul mate, we've predicted that they will live in the ugly purple house together..after they have a purple wedding ceremony together.
the beach
** Story II **
Another funny story that happened on our second day in Qingdao. Now, we all know that Qingdao is the city of beer--a relaxing beach city that hosts the annual beer festival in China. With this in mind, it's quite obvious that the Qingdao Beer Museum would be a tourist attraction that people stop by when visiting Qingdao right? Well, one day we got into a cab (the driver was a woman) and we told her that we wanted to go to the Beer Museum. She looks at us, with a very very puzzled attraction and asked why four girls would want to go to the beer museum. She refused to take us to the Beer Museum, and instead dropped us off at the top of a mountain/very large hill and told us that we should look at the view of Qingdao instead. So, we got off at the top of the mountain, looked at the view from...the 6th or 8th story of a building (kind of looks like the Shanghai Pearl Tower) and then ended up hiking down the mountain..which she told us would only take us 5 minutes--- well, she was wrong.
the mountain the woman taxi driver dropped us off at ..that's the building she wanted us to go too! looks pretty tall right? well, the highest floor we were allowed on was the 6th/8th floor..
Well, we eventually made it to the beer museum
learned about the history of Qingdao Beer-- and also saw all the different types of beer cans and beer bottles they've made in the past years
got to sample a little bit of Qingdao beer with some "beer" peanuts
enjoyed it so much we decided to get our faces printed on beer bottles :) haha
and after a glass each, walked into the "Drunk House" -- I must say, it was probably the best experience of my life, haha..really. It's this odd shaped "house" that you walk into and you automatically feel like you're drunk-- you can't walk straight, you stumble around, and it is the weirdest feeling EVER! but it was so much fun..we went in twice :)
and that's the end to our Spring Break!
Spring Break Pt. II
I would like to start off by telling you all a rather funny story that happened to me and my friends the day we were leaving Beijing to Qingdao. It was the most hectic day, ever. We got to the train station at around 9:00 p.m. and had an hour and a half to kill before our overnight train departed for Qingdao. Our train tickets had 22:48 written on them, and for some reason...we thought 22:48 = 11:48..and..of course we were wrong. We were sitting in a restaurant talking, eating food that we didn't even want, but had to buy in order to sit inside,,just waiting for our train. At 22:43 Jolie looks at her ticket and says..22:48..wait..isn't that 10:48? ..we look at her, she looks at her watch..screams "IT"S 10:43" and we literally sprinted out of the restaurant and down to our waiting hall. The ticket collectors and train conductors were yelling at us as we ran to our train, making it onto the train, just a minute short of our departure time. THANK GOD,,!
and this was the start of our crazy adventure in Qingdao,
us, after sprinting for our lives
the lounge in the hostel we stayed at-- very chill place with yummy breakfast every morning! I think we spent more time here than anywhere else..:)
Walking around outside
a rather hideous purple hotel by the beach
by the beach we walked along
and ran into Jihii's soul mate, we've predicted that they will live in the ugly purple house together..after they have a purple wedding ceremony together.
the beach
** Story II **
Another funny story that happened on our second day in Qingdao. Now, we all know that Qingdao is the city of beer--a relaxing beach city that hosts the annual beer festival in China. With this in mind, it's quite obvious that the Qingdao Beer Museum would be a tourist attraction that people stop by when visiting Qingdao right? Well, one day we got into a cab (the driver was a woman) and we told her that we wanted to go to the Beer Museum. She looks at us, with a very very puzzled attraction and asked why four girls would want to go to the beer museum. She refused to take us to the Beer Museum, and instead dropped us off at the top of a mountain/very large hill and told us that we should look at the view of Qingdao instead. So, we got off at the top of the mountain, looked at the view from...the 6th or 8th story of a building (kind of looks like the Shanghai Pearl Tower) and then ended up hiking down the mountain..which she told us would only take us 5 minutes--- well, she was wrong.
the mountain the woman taxi driver dropped us off at ..that's the building she wanted us to go too! looks pretty tall right? well, the highest floor we were allowed on was the 6th/8th floor..
Well, we eventually made it to the beer museum
learned about the history of Qingdao Beer-- and also saw all the different types of beer cans and beer bottles they've made in the past years
got to sample a little bit of Qingdao beer with some "beer" peanuts
enjoyed it so much we decided to get our faces printed on beer bottles :) haha
and after a glass each, walked into the "Drunk House" -- I must say, it was probably the best experience of my life, haha..really. It's this odd shaped "house" that you walk into and you automatically feel like you're drunk-- you can't walk straight, you stumble around, and it is the weirdest feeling EVER! but it was so much fun..we went in twice :)
and that's the end to our Spring Break!
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