HOTPOT and its (not so) awesome aftereffects

YAY I'm in sichuan, i actually arrived in China on the 31st, haven't gotten around to posting until now though.
 
First, I completely forgot to post about this until shuang's blog had a bit about roosters.  Roosters are quite possibly the most evil bird on the planet.  From Laos through Cambodia through parts of vietnam, every morning roosters crow like theres no tomorrow, the moment the sun rises they start croaking for god knows how long.  Not only in the morning either, late afternoon while youre napping, theyll crow like theres no tomorrow.  Sometimes i want to just run up to one and kick it.  Thankfully there arent any roosters in china... even in Saigon, in the CITY i could hear roosters.
 
Ok so yeah, about china, stayed in kunming overnight to wait for the train, and my oh my the weather there is nice.  It's called the city of eternal spring.. cause it's pretty much cool all year round. It took a 12h bus ride to get to Kunming from the vietnam border town.  Then it took another 22 hour train ride to get to Chengdu.  On the way there you could see the construction progress of the new high speed rail way above the mountains and valleys.. and man its so annoying seeing that in a year or two the same 22h route will take less than 12h to cross....
 
In any case, first night in Chengdu, we ate HOTPOT, yummy yummy hotpot, and then the day after involved a lot of crouching over a toilet.  Totally worth the delicious meal.
 
I saw harry potter too, pretty fun movie, better than i expected.  I still havent eaten enough, i want more chengdu food, and then im off to Guangdong/HK on the 9th! (arrive in HK on the 10th at night for those who care).  I'll have a chinese number by then that ill post.. but im not sure if it will work in HK.  I was thinking of bungee jumping off macau tower... but then i found out it costs 150$ so... i dont think ill do that anymore.
 
YAY civilized world is nice, no more stupid motorcycles running you over, no more people trying to scam you out of your money, no more places swarming with mosquitos!!  Which brings me to: dragonflies are awesome bugs, probably my favorite bugs.  They dont buzz around your head, generally avoid humans, and they eat flies and mosquitoes.  Can you really get any better than that?  Although having a winter that kills almost anything living is a pretty good form of pest control too...
 
Anyways, facebook and blogspot are almost impossible to access in china, so pictures of cambodia/vietnam will have to wait.  Maybe until hongkong, maybe tokyo.. maybe home.