Kenny Comes to Hangzhou!

Kenny Tang came today to visit Hangzhou. He's been in China for a couple of weeks now, visiting Beijing and Shanghai (for the world expo). Quite an interesting turn of events took place... First he called me at around 9:50 and said he was at the train station, so my cousin and I walked there and then called to ask where he was. He told us he was at the ticket office, but when we walked over there he wasn't there. I called him and it turns out he was at the other train station in Hangzhou, all the way to the south. My cousin happened to notice a sign that seemed to say that bus 537 would take him to our train station, and he luckily saw one and was able to get on. However when I called him later he didn't pick up. When we (my cousin, his girlfriend, and I) finally ran into him at the bus stop (about an hour later), it turns out he had dropped his phone right after that conversation and had broken the screen so he couldn't unlock his phone (it's a touch screen phone). On top of that, no one could understand his English while he tried to borrow someone's phone to call me back. It was a crazy turn of events, but thankfully we were able to find each other. We had lunch at a restaurant called "Grandma's" and proceeded to visit West Lake. It was a bit cloudy and drizzly (it rained for only a few minutes though), but it was still a pretty good day for sight-seeing.

There was this really cool looking tree:

We then decided to climb the mountain you see in the background of the first picture. We got to see the tower up close:

There were also some really cool rocks on the mountain, and people were climbing these really steep rocks. It was quite impressive.

Thankfully Kenny is big and strong:

After dinner we walked him to the bus stop so he could take the train to the south train station. It was a really crazy day, but I'm glad we were able to run into each other. Nonetheless we had a lot of fun =).