Lijiang

Lijiang, China, is a scenic city about 3 hours from our Center.  That's where we went with our group of Americans.  We were there for 3 days.  I didn't want to go because Lijiang is a place of bad luck, you'll here about that later though.  

The bus ride was pretty predictable, boring even, despite all the beautiful scenery.  At our arrival, we were greeted by 20'000 foot tall Jade Snow Dragon (add adjective here) Mountain.   Lijiang is a tourist town, just like Dali.  Chinese tour groups were everywhere, and the prices seemed 2 times the price of anywhere else.  The place that we ate at that night was (thankfully) Chinese, which meant that the prices were only 1.4759 times of any other restaurant.  

The following morning was studying!  Math, grammer, geography, reading, science, and spelling.  It payed off though, because our afternoon was free.  But there's less to do in Lijiang then you'd think.  Shopowners seemed to just buy shops without looking 5 feet to the shop next door because the order of the stores were: Trinkets, T-Shirts, Hats, Yak Meat, repeat.  The only thing worth seeing is the mountain; the rest of Lijiang is a black hole that sucks the fun out of everything.  Speaking of that, the last time we were at Lijiang, my brother and dad got sick.  On this trip, Peter broke their record; he threw up 4 times in a night!  To top it off, he lost his $500 camera.  He had thousands of pictures of the mountain, of the bus ride, of everything.  At least he uploaded them.  Oh, wait a moment, sorry about that, he didn't upload them.