More Chinese New Year

We stayed in a town called Shenzhen which is on the water across from Hong Kong Island. This town...sorry not a town...huge city was awesome. Doug and I got to have Starbucks every morning and eat food that you would find in the states every night. Our first night in Shenzhen we ate at an Italian restaurant. Oh my god it was delicious. Doug and I ordered a meat and cheese plate for an appetizer and we ate so much bread...we don't eat a lot of bread here so it was like heaven.....I had salmon Alfredo with asparagus and Doug had tenderloin. It was the most amazing meal we had in a long time. Amazing..we would go back in a heart beat...of course we spent more money on that one meal than we had in a long time it was worth it though!



Now what was really amazing was the fact that so many people spoke English. We could almost talk to anyone...listen I'm not saying that we are slackers and are not learning the language but Chinese is way hard....



Also the great thing was their public transportation. Which there is a picture of up above. The picture is when Doug and I were on the train. The train...subway...was probably the cleanest line of transportation that I have ever been on and it was so easy...everything was electronic and easy. So easy, and everything also had an English name written out or in pinion.




This picture was taken at a one of the largest shopping areas that I have every been to. This is Tim Allen and his daughter Rosalee. This shopping area is called Lo Hu...pronounced Low Who...and I think it is spelled Lo Hu. Well it is this shopping mall that is about 6 stories tall and huge. There are a million little stores, and you can buy anything there, I mean fake purses, CD players, MP3 speakers, DVD players, anything else you can imagine!!!! We started at the top and maybe made it three floors down. we definitely did not have enough time. You can bargain with anything. You have to remember to go half the price they are giving you and go from there. No worries they are always making a profit! Dad would have loved it just because you could bargain.

So just like a typical mall it had a huge display in the middle. well this display was of an Ox...yes I know it doesn't look like an Ox but it is. I think...since it is the year of the Ox..yup welcome to China!!!!

Doug and I being silly in the elevator to our hotel. This hotel was awesome. It was a five start hotel and they actually had a no smoking floor which we got to stay on. It was so beautiful. We went running in the gym, we could have putted on the putting green, the pool was so cool, and the people were so nice. And to tell you the truth this hotel was one of the least expensive places we have stayed in. It was called the Sunshine hotel in Shenzhen. If we have time when our family comes we will take them there not just for the shopping but to stay in the hotel.

Not the best picture in the world but the hotel decorated everything for the Chinese New Year!!! So AWESOME!