Day 28 010606 Dinner by the River

We had to endure yet another 10 hours of ride back to Chengdu but this time round we had much spacious coach with good air-conditioning and no 姐姐 to stop me from enjoying the air-con. But smoking bastards still exist on the coach. Why can’t they just extinct like dinosaurs did? Well, guess they are as persistent as cockroaches.

The journey was slightly longer as initially the driver made occasional stops in villages to pick more passengers up. Clearly he wanted to fill up the capacity and at the same time earn some extra $. While on the bus, I received an SMS from ZP back in SG inviting me to a drinking party. It was a long time since I met up with the guys from Hall 2 and I wanted to see how’s everyone doing, esp. Benny. I had a chance later on when I was back in SG, and glad that everyone’s doing fine though I threw up badly that day.

We had tidbits for lunch and JH was feeling nauseous and tried to throw up but in vain. CCG had to spare him his depleting motion sickness pill. Finally, we were back at Chengdu and again the feeling of returning home was overwhelming.

There was a river, or rather a canal near our hostel along which there were a number of restaurants. We chose one that was open spaced which sold a number of exotic dishes. A waitress led us all the way in and presumably to a table we thought. But soon we sort of lost sight of her and were standing in the middle of large compound with tables full of customers. We stood there for a while, confused and lost. Then we decided to leave the place and try another restaurant. Anyway, we didn’t want to try any weird dishes like rabbit head etc.

We went to another restaurant by the canal and had quite a sumptuous dinner. But the flies above us were very irritating and they really got on Kenneth’s nerves. Other than that, it was a relax dinner with traditional Sichuan dishes and cold beer (蓝剑 brand).

We returned to the hostel and had fruit salad for supper and discussed about the plan for tomorrow. Seemed like we going to split into 2 groups. CCG and I would visit 武侯祠, while JH and Kenneth go explore the city.