Pictures and Cultural Exchanges.

Squid on a stick in Qingdao, why not?

This is the wacky stuff you can eat, keep in mind most of it was still moving, for real.

We had our own special bottle of beer made at the brewery:)

International Beer Festival!!!

Bag O' Beer, located on any street corner with a keg for the low price of 75 cents.

Say your prayers, literally, it's a prayer tree. Every one of those red squares is a prayer someone wished for.

Steve's face after we ate Sichuan food, probably the spiciest food on Earth. Better bring Pepto.

The Bullet train I ride on a lot.

The ancient city wall around Qufu.

Helping sweep up around some ancient tablets around Confucius Temple.

Confucius Temple in his hometown Qufu. It's about 800 years older than our country.

More of Confucius Temple.

Bill walking through the Bullet train station on a smoggy day.

The CCTV building Beijing, one of the most amazing pieces of Architecture in the world.

The Bird's Nest, Olympic village.

Yours truly in front of the Cube, where Michael Phelps whipped the world's ass.

A lil handstand in front of the Nest, no big deal.

The Ancient Bell Tower in front of Tienanmen Square.

A communist sculpture in front of the building that houses Mao's dead ass body, if you get there before noon you can actually go see him if you're curious what someone who murdered millions of his own people looks like. I skipped it, but I imagine he looked bloated and pale.

The Forbidden City where 24 Emperors lived. I can't show enough pictures to display how big this place is. Just think the size of Ross, and then imagine one guy lived there.

5 star dinner, Roast Peking Duck.

Ghost Street where all the best night food in Beijing is, Sichuan Food! Look at all those Chilis! And of course the Great Wall way up on top of a mountain.

ObaMao, ha, apparently the Chinese people think Obama is the second coming of Mao. These shirts are everywhere, it says, "to serve the people," on the shirt. He's got a good approval rating over here haha.

Myself on the bullet train, the famous Canals of Suzhou "the Venice of China," Bruce Lee fast food chain in Shanghai, your typical Starbucks chickens.

The 2nd tallest building in the world, a full moon, Shanghai's skyline at night.

Shanghai lit up on a different night.

So much has happened in the past few weeks I can't even sum it up. I'll just tell you a little bit about the events of my coming home from the cafe tonight after drawing. First I went past the Guitar Bar, which had a few Chinese guys in country western outfits playing what sounded like a Mexican guitar rift. I thought I gotta see this live, so I bought a beer and no sooner than that happened they broke straight into the theme song to the movie Titanic, as you'd expect Chinese men dressed like John Wayne to do. After that spectacle I kept on my walk and as I was about to pass McDonalds a drunk man on a scooter full speed runs right into the curb 30 feet in front of me and wrecks his scooter to the sound of crunching plastic. With zero hesitation he picks his drunk self up, picks up his scooter, puts down the kick stand, shit you not he beeps the alarm on his scooter, and limps his ass into McDonalds for a Big Mac. The walk continues, and I see a couple my age, dressed fairly nice, also a bit drunk, a good bit drunk for a Monday night, crouching in the very nice landscaping in front of the "Beijing Oriental International Cultural Exchange Center," I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget. As I approached this complex and this couple, they were one foot off the sidewalk, I realized they were digging a hole a foot deep. Then I realized the girl was hiking up her skirt to take a dump, well played. Cultural exchange center indeed. And that was 20 minutes, now imagine 4 weeks of that. Unlimited entertainment. Alright, off to bed, until next time.....