Day 1 Part B of our Trip to Hangzhou

We spent a while on our little boat and then it docked at an island in West Lake.  We walked around and enjoyed the lush green vegetation.  Due to the holiday weekend, we did have to stand in some lines and were enjoying the beauty with LOTS of other people.  Hangzhou is a popular place for Chinese people to visit on holidays.

We rode a larger boat back to the edge of the lake and then walked to find a nice restaurant to eat our dinner together.  Lilian chose the Green Tea Restaurant.  There was quite a waiting line but we found some seats and waited about 45 minutes for our number to be called.  When it was, we were taken upstairs...maybe to the 3rd or 4th floor and seated.  Just entering the restaurant, I smelled some very delicious smells.  It was full of tables of families and friends and the dishes on the tables looked interesting and tasty.  I should have mentioned that Lilian had a menu to look over during our 45-minute wait and we chose fried rice, a tofu dish, an eggplant dish, a beef and pumpkin dish, roasted chicken, a green salad, hot soup, "green tea pie", and some nice, cold drinks.  Jenny chose a blended, creamy avocado drink which was good and Rod and I had a citrus drink. The green tea pie is in one picture...round like a pie (or cookie) with a sesame outer layer.  It all was super delicious!  And the company could not have been better.

After our meal, the sun had set and we headed back to the lake's edge to enjoy the colorful lights on the boats and the large fountain in the lake, plus music playing.  I have never seen so many people holding their cell phones to take videos of the colorful fountain!!!

When the music stopped, we walked back to our hotel.  The girls came over to our room and we enjoyed sharing music together.  Rod played the guitar and we sang "O Shenandoah", he played a classical guitar piece, and we sang a Christian song we learned last summer in Germany and then a song in Chinese called "Jesu Ai Ni".  The girls then sang a few Chinese songs for us.  Jenny also plays the guitar.  It was a full day.  The girls are fantastic hostesses!!!