Checking out of the Apothecary shop. We bought some of the "Ben-gay" like medicine. It feels great!

Measuring out medicine

Our taxi driver tried to speak English with Peter to find out where in the U.S. we lived. We gave him a Mackinac pen and he kept looking at it even after Chinese businessmen got in his cab and were ready to go.

Brita and Peter rented bikes at the hotel to tour West Lake.

Dinner at the Marco Polo hotel

We were always offered bottled water, Sprite, Coke, tea, and beer (even the girls). Never ice, although we couldn't have it anyway since it was made from tap water.

Two weeks after we got back, Brita said that one "Mocktail" she ordered at a piano bar, was not "mock." She said the screen was all blurry when she was checking her email in the business center that night and she doesn't remember dinner at all!

Paying Bob back after a short term loan to me. I often didn't have enough yuan when I was shopping with him and we had to get more from Peter later!

Waiting for the train to Shanghai

Rhonda dressing up Ed in her new silk shawl

Confusion over Bob's seat on the train... our paths rarely crossed with another tour group.