Friend's bro getting married tonite so we headed to Hangzhou this morning. The train ticket purchase at our town was sooooo easy - NOT!! Last year, for a better efficient customer focus service, we could just walked up to an auto ticket booth, selected our destination and class of service. Stuffed our $ into the machine. Done. Total time last year to purchase was 5 min. Today due to security concern ensuring we live in a H@rm0niOu$ society, we needed to be purchase in person w/ ID card. So we lined up. And true to Fr7369nking C0mmie style, no directions. Only in local language announcements in crapy speakers. The train station was branch new though. So we lined up at the wrong place until I heard something saying "today's ticket is on 2nd flr". Right. Half of the people lined up left quickly heading there including us. Another 15 min later, we were in the platform. Nice speedy trains huh?
55 minutes later, we were at Hangzhou. Nice and sunny. Hyatt was in front of West Lake. Too commercialized. We still like the side of the lake where Shangri-la located.
Then the banquet Chinese style. You can see for yourself. Good food and still cigarettes everywhere. Haha. These were not the ones like Canada. The cigarettes were so strong not sure what other stuff were put in there. Even though there was a national ban for indoor smoking, right. No cigarette, no revenue for your biz . ;-) we had fishes, hairy crabs, pork, shrimps, and turtles. You know, the usual stuff.
As the room started to fill up in thick blue smoke changing the color theme for the wedding from creamy white, we left the building.
The newly wed couple, they were so respectful of the parents they kneeled and bowed to all if them. Seldom to see at these 80's after young people.
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