so we had a crazy ass saturday. it started at 9 a.m with a trip to a temple in shekou ( an area of shenzhen close to the water). this temple was a shrine to the water gods basically. People also pray ang give fruit and food sacrafices in hopes of good fortune to the shrines their. There are these really cool pots that if you rub the sides just right water sprays out of them, that kept us busy for hours. then it was 25 minute walk tot he tomb of the last emporer of the Song dynasty. He is the baby on the guys back. He obviously did not do much as a ruler, the guy whose back he was on drowned both of them rather than let the mongol hoard get them. we then went to a fortress about thirty minutes away and looked at some dope cannons and shot some toy guns. This was all over soon and then the real fun started.
we then went to a KTV ( kareokee) and got nice and wasted. It was fun to go out with everyone we work with, both foreign and chinese. the place we went was nuts. very big and very plush. but only 80 yuan (10 dollars) an hour. So we had fun there and sang our little hearts out for a couple hours.
we then went on to a bar. and for un known reasons we got free wine and some free beer brought to us. Not totally unusual, but still odd. Then to take the cake a guy came up and said that we would get a free bottle of booze if someone went on stage and sang with the band. which seemed odd, but whatevs. So greg went and sang "summer of 69" for a couple hundred chinese dudes and dudettes. we then got a 900 yuan (125$) bottle of hennessey for free. needless to say the rest of the night is foggy at best.
