It’s the Golden Week Holiday so we decided to go to Hang Zhou for a short trip.
The people that went were: Yu Hong (YH), Yi Juan (YJ), Jie Ying (JY), Angela and me.

Woke up at 5am today when I slept at 3am at YH’s place. Took a bus down to Dong Chang Road and reached my place at around 7am where everyone was still sleeping.

Time was spent waiting for YJ, JY and I to pack our stuff and then Angela started packing too. I didn’t have a bag to bring so I stuffed everything into YH’s huge bag while I carried all his camera stuff (you do not know how much camera stuff this guy has man!).

We then headed for lunch downstairs our house before taking the MRT to Shanghai MRT station. When we went out to the train station, we bought our train ticket to Hang Zhou but it was standing tickets which meant that we didn’t have a seat for the 2 hour ride.

To make things worse, we were at the wrong train station. We had to take the MRT all the way to another station to board the train to Hang Zhou.

Our ride was at 2.10pm but we were early. We tried sitting at the then empty seats but soon enough all was filled. We were left standing in between the cabin and it was super squeezy.

The bad thing was that the people would walk back and forth which made us had a hard time standing on the small space. There were even push carts going around throughout the whole journey.

Already being used to being stared at, we started sitting on the floor. Thank goodness no smoking was allowed and the train was reasonably clean.

Finally 2 hours passed and we reached Hang Zhou in once piece! I was already super urgent so I had no choice but to visit the toilet. You wouldn’t wanna know the experience in there! It was classic.

As this was a last minute trip with nothing planned, we still didn’t have a place to stay. We decided to cab down to Shangri-la to ask if we could get staff price because we were seriously clueless where to head to.

Reached the hotel and sadly, we couldn’t get staff rate because it was too last minute! So we tried calling lots of other hotels to ask if the had rooms available but majority of them only have 1 night free and the next 2 nights fully booked because of the Golden Week Holiday.

We were calling other hotels at Shang’s lobby and even got the Front Desk people to help us call hotels! Did this for like an hour before getting a hotel that was available for 3 days at a reasonable price.

Cabbed down to Hua Yang Bin Guan and to our surprise it looked quite nice! Checked-in our stuff and we started planning where to visit for the next few days.

We got hungry after that so we went down to find food. Ate at this franchise beef la mian store which was cheap and good. A bowl of beef la mian costs only RMB4!

Walked in the middle of the road after that to take jumping shots before heading back to the hotel to crash.