We were meeting my cousin, Laura, and her boyfriend, Jake, today at 1:30pm in some fancy restaurant. But I really wasn't keen on doing nothing until they arrived so Tom and I decided to go tour the city some more and maybe go shopping. We went to some station which was located right next to temple heaven. The temple lived up yo its reputation. It was massive and had some amazing architecture which gawk at. The temple was made in the 1400s as a place to worship gods and you could see funny looking objects scattered around the occasional worship hut. Poorly translated English was written in tiny font which described the purpose of each sector or item. It turns out that the Chinese used to pour boiling water on animals as a sacrifice to the gods. Mmmmmmmm lobster.
We met Jake and Laura in some fancy restaurant that was inconveniently located no where near the street it was supposed to be on and without a visible street number. Our inability to say anything in Cantonese other than "hello" started to be an issue when we asked the waiter to give us an additional 5 minutes after he started showing us the specials. It turns out we accidentally ordered 5 whole ducks. Fortunately we cancelled the order in time.
After lunch we toured a different part of that neighborhood and passed a place that looks exactly like the china town in Sydney. Chinseption!!
We also went to see to another palace. I got to get a picture of me meeting a monk! It was awesome. We had so much in common.
I also purchased a cheap communist hat! I did it partially for protection against the sun, partially for shits and giggles, and partially to express my new found support for the disestablishment of democracy.
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