Today was a long touring day for Jonathan. He woke up at 7.30AM, still feeling tired and sleepy, he dragged himself out of bed and prepared for the day. The weather today was fortunately good, as weather forecast predicted a wet day.
He headed down to the beach, which was both a nice sight but normal with no wow factor. Stupidly for him, he walked in a “wrong” direction that lead to seeing people fishing and playing with the sand, rather than going up a cliff to overlook the sea. He only did this at the last five minutes, which he could not get to complete his journey up. What a pity.
After the beach visit was complete, he was brought to the same Chinese Restaurant as the previous week. The food this time was so-so, he guessed it was because he was not as hungry as the previous.
After the lunch, he headed to the Police Women Horse Academy, (he decided to give it a new name since he could not remember it), and the horses were nice and tall. He found some dandelions on the fields, and got over engrossed and “destroyed” them all. Apparently, many people caught him doing it on their individual cameras.
He then entered into the “dorms” of the horses which was really smelly. But after being in it for a long time, he got used to the smell.
Kowloon’s Blessing mis-spelt.
Best of the best mis-spelt.
Having spent a long time over at the academy, blowing dandelions and looking at horses, he then headed towards the Dalian Sightseeing Tower. Wow, this place was really high up and nice. The air was hazy, which was nothing new, and smelt odd. Industrial air pollution? He spotted one of Dalian's icon and pride, Soccer.
While at the top of the hill, he spotted some terrace houses. He never knew, or never had expected that China would have terrace houses. He always had a very bad mindset that it was village like everywhere.
We took the elevator up to the point and walked around the viewing observatory area.
What Jonathan found stupid and annoying was the construction of the place. Every viewing window was blocked by some structural stuff, hence being unable to get a full view.
The floor felt hollow too.Construction detail for hand railing, to use scotch tape to architect’s selection. (3M?)
At the same place, we viewed a mini museum for butterflies and other dead insects, how gross.
The day was still not yet over for him. He was now brought to a square with China’s very proud sculpture for the hosting of the Olympics games just last year, 2008.
Just around the square, he spotted a McDonald’s sign which excited everyone. All his friend, and including himself, decided to have McDonald’s for dinner that night. What a relief to the tongue. Another great relief was to have Pocky Blueberry flavour! Fruits were refreshing and weird. Apart from apples and bananas, he tried a weird wild berry, which felt squirmy and soft. It was described as “a shrunk bunch of grapes”.
