GZ for Americans day 2

Today in Guangzhou we went to the oldest temple in Guangzhou- the Guangxiao temple. It has a lot of buildings that look almost Japanese. Of course the Chinese will say that the Japanese things are from China so… anyway, it has some very nice buildings and nice grounds with big trees and incense burners all around.


After the temple we went back to Shamian island for some shopping before leaving for the rehearsal dinner back in Xiaolan. Unfortunately, few taxis want to take us there so we fold into a small Jetta, whose driver says that he has a friend who can take the two boys, but the friend is far away. This driver will take all 5 of us AND all of our luggage to meet his friend, and then we will go. Of course that will not work as the guys are 6 feet tall and we have between us about 6 suitcases. I say no have the friend come here. So he decides that he will wait for his friend too- just to make sure we don’t stiff the friend. No no that won’t work either. The parents and I have to get there soon. There is lots of arguing, the guys are yelling at me to go, I am yelling at the driver to go, the doormen and trying to flag down a taxi for the guys… It is all a big mess. And so typical Chinese.


We end up getting out and finding a better taxi. But our driver gets lost so we are driving around a bit. We end up arriving the same time the guys arrive, who knows how long they had had to wait for a taxi.

We now have to hurry to get to the rehearsal dinner, which, as far as I can tell, is really just rehearsal for eating.