Thursday, October 27, 2011

Buddha Mountain

Today we had breakfast at the hotel buffet and I had a big breakfast... again :)  I was famous at breakfast... all of the waitresses wanted to have their picture taken with me.  They took about a thousand pictures each!

Ms. Tang picked us up at 9:30 and we went to buy a stroller.  Then we went to the bottom of Cloud Dragon Mountain.  We climed up to the temple.  At first I thought that she had just gone to pray that none of us would fall off the top of the mountain.  But, then I figured out that the temple was on the mountain and we were actually climbing it when we were climbing the temple steps.  I saw alot of Buddha statues.  They were big and there were like 30 of them.



When we got to the big Buddha at the top (which was the last part of the temple) the priest gave me and Johnathan the apples that had been given to the Buddha.  He was bald.


When we left the Buddha temple Mommy bought a souvenier to keep our car safe.  Then we went further up the mountain and I climbed up the rocks all the way up.  When we got to the top Ms. Tang told us that we were the first foreign guests she has had who made it all the way to the top.  There were alot of steps!


After the mountain we went out to lunch at a local Xuzhou restaraunt.  I had chicken soup, tacos with fried noodles (they were not really tacos but they looked like it), and celery.  Then we went to take a walk around the lake.  We passed 3 bridges on the walk.  I thought I saw a snake once and I thought I saw an alligator once but I didn't.




After that we went to a market.  We walked around and saw the food.  Ms. Tang (very nicely!) bought me some fried noodles, sugarcane, and giant pancakes (that look like tortillas).




Then we went back to the hotel and got stuff from the tea service.  It was a good day!