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Okay. So, two things. 1) National day has already come...and gone. and 2) this Polaroid of Beryl has nothing to do with it...I just wanted to share it. :)
Although, speaking of Beryl...
I found out she can knit! She knitted a scarf for my mum. Her skill set is so polar-opposite to mine.
and cross-stitch! She made me this super cute frog-shaped phone charm. :)
Back on topic. National day! Flags are everywhere.
EVERYWHERE!
Cute girl with a very faded flag. :)
and another!
All over town there are stalls like this selling mooncake.
and finally this shot. "Anything is Possible." and the Chinese flag.
I'm inclined to agree.
:)
Took my camera for a wonder around one night. These are the results.
A KTV / Hotpot / Bank / Gym building near my apartment.
Stumbled upon this basketball game being played.
Calling for a timeout!
They looked quite tired.
Loads of people were playing pool.
So many interesting colours at night, really makes for interesting photography.
Always see students cycling home at silly hours. Often as late as 10:30pm. Students in China work so damn hard. Shout out to them.
( As an aside, I'm actually back home now. At least for a few weeks. )
"Cheers!" or "Prost!" as they say in Germany.
So, myself, Beryl, Rudy, Joanne and Kai headed to Xi'an for the Oktoberfest held at the Sofitel hotel there. The Sofitel is a totally pimp hotel, and Rudy knows someone who works there, so we got hooked-up price wise, so kudos to him.
Beryl sitting on the bed in the hotel room.
The hotel room had this... interesting... feature. Behind this blind is the bathroom shower, so you can watch your partner shower from the comfort of your bed. Like I said; interesting.
The hotel is split into different buildings, this is the lobby of the 5 star section. We stayed in the slightly-less impressive 4 star section, but it was still great.
The exterior.
The whole thing was in collaboration with Paulaner
The interior of the festival tent. Blue-and-white Bavarian theme throughout.
Kai (who's German) toasts with Rudy (who's...not.)
and of course, one to call my own. :)
A very bad photo; but you get the idea.
Lederhosen!!!!!
There was LOTS of "cheers"ing and lots of clashing glasses while singing. For some reason "Alice, Alice who the **** is Alice?" is a theme of Oktoberfests. It was played about 5 times along with a few German songs which by the end of the night I could sing off by heart... but somehow forgot the next morning. Thank you beer. :)
Zee Germans!
The music was pretty cool. :)
Check out the beaut' on the tuba.
I want his hat.
Then this pretty lil' lady chugged a whole 2 pint glass in under 10 seconds. I was impressed.
Rudy being outnumbered by zee Germans. So many jokes, so little time.
Beryl and Joanne enjoying themselves!
Hat-swapping competitions. Awesome.
At the end of the night, things started going a little dark and blurry.
The last thing I remember seeing. :-P
The next day we woke up and wondered around Xi'an. I didn't really take any good snaps, until we got to a restaurant. The service was so poor, and the food wasn't much special. But we then noticed this in the menu, and things started to make sense.
Quantity assurance.
A typical sight at Xi'an bus station.
Then on the bus, Kai (who's tall, but not giant) displays that leg room on Chinese buses isn't great.
It was a blast, and I'll probably do it again next year! :D
