Sorry it's taken me so long to write this, but I've just been super lazy since returning to Korea ;) I spent 4 days in China visiting Charlie at his home in Hangzhou. Hangzhou has historically been known as the prettiest city in China, and while that might not be apparent out where Charlie lives, the city center was quite nice. Not that where Charlie lives is a dump, it just looks like the outskirts of any city- lots of concrete, not a lot of excitement. Downtown there is a beautiful lake where we spent a good bit of time- we kept returning hoping to find it not so crowded, but that never worked. It was a week of national holiday in China since they were celebrating both the fall harvest festival and the 60th anniversary of the Communist party's takeover. This meant that downtown was chock full of people, many of them Chinese tourists with their faces buried in maps. It was a nice relaxing trip; we just spent a lot of time wandering around different parts of the city and seeing the sites. Hangzhou is definitely a nice city, and somewhere I want to go again for sure.
Here's the sunrise, and the view from Charlie's window.
Charlie, looking extremely tall. Notice the people turned around staring.
Me, in front of the West Lake.
And a pretty view of the sunset over the lake.
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