This year I’m planning on taking a small spring break trip to Huangshan (Yellow mountains) but the beginning was spent with friends in Guangzhou. We can’t leave China yet.
I met Elaine and my friends from school Anne and Trixie at the sports center. I had told them about the fashion hub mall underneath the sports center so we were going to spend the afternoon enjoying it. You can go to this mall and spend all day and still not see everything. From entertainment, games, shopping, restaurants, a real arctic town, and crafts including pottery.
First up is taking pictures at a photo booth.
Massage chairs came in handy. After running the day before and rowing dragon boats, it was timely.
There were plenty of photo ops depicting days past in China. You can actually rent traditional clothes to take pictures in the mall.
Of course we should buy cotton candy to share.
I’ve always wanted to try one of these karaoke pods. It is really made for two but we made it work. Directions were not in English so took us some time to figure out how to find songs.
We were entertained with kids playing games.
We did some shopping including my favorite Japanese store that has great collectibles. From there we went to another mall connected through an underground passageway.
We passed through that mall to get to the poutine restaurant on the street behind. Coronaritas and French fries with toppings was an great late lunch.
From there we went to the pig Cafe I have been at previously. It was a lot of fun with more people.
At the nearby upscale mall we went to the book store. There are items from around the world including the British Museum. I liked this lucky cat which is a riff on the Chinese lucky cat. This one had its middle finger up.
There are always interesting things to see at this mall. These bicycles are mostly art.
This is an actual art installation called Flow. It was fun to watch how people use it flowing in and out as well as the flow of lights.
The weekend before I completed a 21 km walk around Guangzhou with a friend and met some new ones. I would rather run that distance than walk it!
