{"id":914,"date":"2011-02-20T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T16:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/?p=914"},"modified":"2011-02-20T00:01:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T16:01:40","slug":"dida-dida-dida-dida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Dida, dida, dida, dida…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 6 – “Wow! That’s the cleanest public bathroom I’ve ever seen!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bathrooms in China are gross.\u00a0 I’m okay with the squatting part of it but I dread using a public toilet because they are usually filthy.\u00a0 This is not the case in Lijiang.\u00a0 It was here that I found the cleanest public toilet I have ever seen.\u00a0 I should have photographed it.<\/p>\n

The morning after the hike I slept in.\u00a0 Sort of.\u00a0 I think because I’m old I’m not able to sleep in. I don’t know.\u00a0 I slept until 7:30 on that morning. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 But, I didn’t crawl out of my bed until about 9:30. So that was good.\u00a0 It was here that I learned everything I’d ever need to know about Andrew.\u00a0 I met Andrew on my first day in Lijiang. We spoke two words to each other at the desk of the hostel and went our separate ways.\u00a0 I ran into him again on my second night in Lijiang–the night before he left for the gorge hike.\u00a0 He was disappointed to find out that I wouldn’t be hiking with him and his two friends.\u00a0 I’m sure he was fine.\u00a0 He was the fourth member of our “dorm-style” room at the hostel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Remember how I said I opted out of the bar-hopping the previous night because I would rather sleep? (man, how old am I?)\u00a0 Well, Susanne did not opt out and subsequently did not return to the guesthouse that night.\u00a0 So we were down to three people in our “dorm.” Me, Andrew, and a Japanese girl.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I woke up at 7:30 because the Japanese girl turned on the light and was making lots of noise. Andrew also woke up.\u00a0 We used the next two hours to talk about the hike and get to know each other.\u00a0 He was going to be meeting his two friends for breakfast that morning and invited me along.\u00a0 Ok. Why not?\u00a0 Breakfast was amazing! It was so amazing, I photographed it.<\/p>\n

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Breakfast included: toast (good toast), eggs ('shuang mian'--which roughly means 'double sided'), hashbrowns (in a cute little disk-like figure), bacon on top of yak milk cheese (mmmm.....), tomatoes and cucumbers, honey, jam, and ketchup. This was the "American Breakfast." Do you notice the 'coffee' cup in the photo? Yes, that was definitely hot chocolate with Bailey's Irish Cream! \ud83d\ude42 Perfect. Breakfast. <\/p><\/div>\n

I forgot to mention that breakfast didn’t actually happen until around noon.\u00a0 We ended up waiting a while for Andrew’s two friends to finish getting ready.\u00a0 After ‘breakfast’ we split up for the day.\u00a0 Andrew was going to rent a bike and I was going to help Susanne find a scarf that she liked.\u00a0 She wanted to go take a shower first so I was own my own for a while.\u00a0 This was great!\u00a0 Except for one thing….<\/p>\n

You should know that if something in pop culture catches on in China they will overplay it. \u00a0(movie, song, you name it…)\u00a0 This is why Titanic is still super popular (especially the Celine Dion song), and also why the Chinese people love the song “Yesterday Once More” by the Carpenters.\u00a0 They also think that every foreigner knows all the words to that song.\u00a0 It’s so strange.\u00a0 “Country Roads” also…\u00a0 There is this really beautiful song called “Dida” (which I was told is by an artist from Yunnan Province–they are proud of their girl!).\u00a0 I think I would really love this song (maybe even buy the CD) if I didn’t hear it for the next 8 hours straight.\u00a0(and the entire next day)\u00a0EVERY single little shop that had music playing capabilities was playing this song.\u00a0 It was even one man’s job to sit in his store and play his bongo drum (poorly) to the beat of the song.\u00a0 This is not a joke.\u00a0\u00a0At first it was kind of nice.\u00a0 But with every repeat of the song I hated it more and more.\u00a0 I’ve included the song for you to enjoy.\u00a0 The artist’s name is KanKan.\u00a0 I hope you don’t hate it like I do.\u00a0 ipernity KanKan – DiDa – by Anton Hazewinkel<\/a>\u00a0(Sorry. You have to click the link and then save the file in order to play it. I know no other way.\u00a0 Seems like an awful lot of hassle to hear a song that I hate. I’m just saying…)<\/p>\n

At about 2, Susanne and I began the search for the perfect scarf.\u00a0 In Lijiang there were so many people weaving scarves.\u00a0 They are pretty cool and each one is unique.\u00a0 (Yes, I bought one too)\u00a0 She clearly had in mind what she was looking for, and they clearly did not have it.\u00a0 She finally settled for a lovely multi-colored weaved scarf.\u00a0 (I bought mine the following day–it’s black and white)\u00a0<\/p>\n

The whole time we were walking around the shops in the Old Town, my foot was killing me.\u00a0 I had taken care of the aforementioned blister but my other foot was hurting badly.\u00a0 I told Susanne that I needed to go take care of my foot.\u00a0 She was fine with that because she needed to go pack up her stuff and get ready for her train out of town.\u00a0 We were both fine with hanging out in the hostel.\u00a0 I don’t know why I thought I needed to walk around the town all day.\u00a0 I had just climbed up and down a mountain.\u00a0 When I got back to the hostel, I discovered that my little toenail was cutting the second to last toe and my toes were both bleeding.\u00a0 This actually happened on the second day of the hike too.\u00a0 I don’t learn, do I?\u00a0 I stayed off my feet for the rest of the night (well, most of it).\u00a0 Andrew and company asked me later if I wanted to get a beer.\u00a0 I joined them for a beer at a local western restaurant run by two foreigners.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All in all–a really relaxing fun day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 6 – “Wow! That’s the cleanest public bathroom I’ve ever seen!” Bathrooms in China are gross.\u00a0 I’m okay with the squatting part of it but I dread using a public toilet because they are usually filthy.\u00a0 This is not the case in Lijiang.\u00a0 It was here that I found the cleanest public toilet I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}