Thursday, July 22, 2010

Business Trip: 天目糊 (Tianmu Lake)

I was just on a business trip from July 18-21 at Tianmu Lake. The purpose of this trip was to discuss a new project with some people from another company for what I would assume is some sort of power plant. They chose Tianmu Lake for the nice scenery/location and to stay at the Hentique hotel which is right on the lake. First four of us left Sunday morning, Han Zong, Yao Yao, Chen Jun, and me to set up rooms and prepare for the rest of the people from our company and the other company to come on Monday. It was about a 2 hours' drive from Hangzhou. I roomed with Yao Yao; he's 26 and pretty outgoing and funny, so we got along pretty well. He went to buy gifts for the people we were hosting and he ended up buying them 160 GB Ipod classics. Nice gift I'd say =P. For dinner, we went to a nearby restaurant where I had snake, which is apparently a delicacy even in China, since most restaurants won't serve it. At night we went swimming and to the hot springs they have on the mountain side. They weren't real hot springs, but it was cool since they made it look natural by making it out of rocks and being pretty much right with nature, which unfortunately means there are large cicadas swimming around in the pool and mosquitoes everywhere (each foot has at least 5 bites and they itch like crazy. I guess mountain mosquitoes are very hungry).

The next couple days were mostly the same. They had meetings in the hotel, and I just stayed in my room during that time, relaxing and watching TV. They were planning on going sight-seeing on Tuesday, but they had more business to attend to Tuesday afternoon. When they finally finished, I went swimming again for a little while with Han Zong and another co-worker, since a couple people were still out running errands. We ended up going to dinner pretty late, and when we finished around 9 the people in restaurant pretty much all left and we were the last ones there. They pretty much forced us out. Afterward five of us (all guys) ended up going to get massages. I'm a bit ticklish, but it was very nice. I got lucky and got a pretty cute girl too =P. Definitely the best part of the trip =).

It was a really fun and relaxing trip. Only 2 more weeks before I come back the Michigan! Below are some pictures from the trip.

Hentique Hotel:


Our room: (Note the bathtub...)


Restaurant in the Hotel:


Business Meeting:


Tianmu Lake:

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