Fuzhou

Once we got to Fuzhou, we had an extended bus ride to the city.  There was an accident along the way so it took about 45 minutes longer than we expected. The farm land and new construction was great to see though.  Our Hotel is in the resort-ish area of West Lake.  Our hotel is being updated so only a couple of floors are even open.  Our breakfast and our room service is from the hotel next door!  There is major construction (actually destruction) going on right next door and it begins at 6:30 am and goes until 8pm at night!  Not good when you don't get to sleep until 2am in the morning! The first night we walked along the lake a saw a wonderful water show with great music!

The theatre is right next door, so that's nice.  And the posters and programs are beautiful!

I went to an area called Wuyi Square where the center of Fuzhou is.   Behind there we found the White Pagoda and beautiful Buddhist temples of Tian Jin Temple and a meandering park.

We found a roller rink/arcade one day while walking around Fuzhou.  The floors were warped and they even had holes in them! But we survived! On the 8th we held our own Troika "Special" Olympic event.  Matt and Greg were partners in a paddle boat race and were dressed up as Zeus and Posidon and they won the Golden Duckie - first place!  I think they had great costumes too! We then we ordered Pizza form Papa John's and  prepared to watch Opening Night on TV.  Elaine found a wonderful old Neighborhood, Sanfeng with VERY old (Qing and Ming Dynasty)  and picked up pieces of old china and pottery.  It's cool having pieces that are so old! While in Fuzhou I received some pictures from one of the photographers in Guangzhou.  We found out we will be traveling to Xiamen by bus (4 hours) and staying the night there so we can fly out to  Macau!  We saw a lot of the country side and we stopped at the McDonalds! We got to our hotel, and guess what?  It was beautiful, spacious, great internet and had great food.....AND we only got to stay here ONE night! Go figure!