Guangzhou

What a difference a day makes, we have made it into China and boy is this place amazing...we caught the train up here a quick 2 hour trip and it was so smooth and comfortable ....we left earlier than the scheduled time, not sure what that was about got here a little later than the scheduled time but it was certainly more efficient and comfortable than what we have at home....took forever to get to the hotel well everything here takes forever.....we have just came back in from a walk around Walking Street and I wish that I could give you the sounds and smells....the place is thick with cigarette smoke and the smells of so many different foods, the most disgusting is the tripe and offal bubbling away, not sure how you would be able to eat it but they must do.....everything is so loud & they have music blaring in all the shops and people out the front banging signs and screaming at the top of their lungs to get you to come into their shop...it really is a eye opener, can't see it being too successful in Sydney..my hair smells of smoke just like I had been in a club or pub back in the day when you could smoke inside.....oh and legs are a bit sore today from the 4 million steps yesterday.......the boys have gone for a massage....oh I forgot they had the coffee on the train and it was another fail....new hotel they can try again in the morning.....

Can you imagine the surprise when you see the Opera House and Koala's in their Christmas decorations.

I'm thinking that Trisha can use these at her place this Christmas, will make them a offer...

Goldfish at the pet shop these had the best colour..

Not exactly sure what the sign is saying but if you look closely it is Sydney with landmarks from Dubai, New York, Shanghai..we don't need to travel any more we can just pop down to Circular Quay.

It's the Police Highway patrol pursuit car....bahaha

I think this was a railway museum on the way up here...

Dan's Go Pro doing it's thing on the window, stay tuned for some video Grandpa...

This was the train we were at the top and had a 4 seats facing each other with a table in the middle...

Coming out of Guangzhou station..

What every hotel room needs, hopefully they will never be needed....though could come in handy doing the shopping..

They told me what they were but I can't remember the sign says the bigger ones are $1 each and the smaller ones are around 35 cents each.

Turtles, they had so many of them mainly small ones...

Little gerbils, of course Ethan wanted one... 

Apparently its a Chinchilla...

One of the many gourd shops the one hanging down that looks like a pumpkin was so cool but another shop a few doors up had a better one that had a twisted stem...

This door was just stunning it looked like it had been there for a very long time there were shops either side of it that had the roller shutters but this place just seemed like it was stuck in another time...

Walking Street, though the buses still go down there...

Most of the building are lit up like this.....

Can get a jumbo size here...

Here you go what you all have been waiting for, now I bet you wished this was a smelling blog....not....yum kids dinner.....

On the way back to the hotel, this was about 9.30pm and as you can see by the crowds they don't go to bed with the chickens...

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