We walked over to the bus stop in the morning (in the rain) and took a bus to the border. After officially entering mainland we took another bus to Guangzhou, it probably felt like a very long bus ride to anyone sitting close to Fiona and I cause we managed to talk and laugh A LOT, the whole way through. We got off at the train station in Guangzhou, loaded up on snacks for the train, and went for a chinese fast food dinner. Where did we eat fast food you ask? Well, Kung Fu of course...cause if Bruce Lee (or his animated doppelganger) is the mascot...of course you’re gonna eat there!
I’ll be completely honest and admit that I enjoyed the name much more than the food ( I think I’ve been spoiled with too much ridiculously delicious real Chinese food so far to be able to actually enjoy a Kung Fu meal).
Anyway, after dinner we went into the train waiting area. While in this big, crowded, huge, vast, open waiting area filled with many, countless, copious amounts of people ... my amaaaazing travel buddy Fiona decided to surprise me with a graduation ceremony!!!...with a dollar store grad hat and ALL!
So I missed my “real” graduation ceremony to go on this trip...but come on, does it get any “realer” than this? If you ask me, that was the BEST graduation I could’ve ever asked for!
... plus I think it entertained the hundreds of people in the waiting room quite a bit too.
After that magnificent ceremony we got on our train and took it overnight to Yangshuo. I’ve been on overnight trains before, but I slept on a regular upright train chair, so if you ask me, this was luxury! Plus, I’m was one of those kids who thought that bunk beds were the coolest thing in the world but never actually had one.
Well not only did our little room/compartment/closet thing have 2 bunk beds...it had 2 three tiered bunk beds!!!!!
Sigh, it’s like every kid’s dream come true! except you’d probably have to substitute the rice wine for warm milk or something.
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