We're in Chengde

Meghan and I are in Chengde! We arrived here on Friday. It was a great drive, about 6 hours. It was very scenic. I will make sure to add photos as I can.

So, alot has happened in these two days. First, Meghan and I moved into our apartments. With a little bit of cleaning (and throwing a whole bunch of stuff away), our apartments are comming along well. They are pretty spacious. When you walk in there is a tiny kitchen to the left and a small space with a China cabinent. Then, to the right is my bedroom with a desk and computer and king size bed. Across from my room in the living room with a tv, couch and four chairs. The bathroom, is, um...interesting (to put it nicely. It is the size of a closet. There is a toilet (thank God for that!), and a shower heard that comes off the wall. There is alos a sink and mirror. So, basically when I shower, it gets the entire bathrom soaked. It is the most akward shower I have ever seen. But, I have runing water, a working toilet, and have had a hot shower every day so far. So, I guess I don't have too much to complain about.


Our apartment is right off of a main street where there are a lot of shops, and KVT bars. KVT is Kareoke (I can't spell!), here in China and is very popular. We are going to go there one night with the other Drake kids who are in Chengde.

Meghan and I walked over to the hotel where the other Meghan, Chris and Justin are staying for a month, because their apartments are not ready yet. They found a great dumpling restaurant. The five of us had dinner and each had a beer. It was great. The total cost of the dinner was 52 RMB (Chinese Currency) all together. That is about $9 US. Therefore, each of us had dinner and a beer for under $2 US. I love how cheap food here in China is. We also found a KFC and went into it just for fun. On the walls it said, "finger licking good" and "Natural, organic, KFC". We took photos of it, I'll post them later.

There is a lot more to say, which I will do later, but Meghan and I are going shopping now, then to get some lunch. Hopefully we stop at a good street vender.