This is me and Guo Jian's daughter blowing bubbles.
Note that this means I was blowing bubbles and she ran around like a madman kicking them.
Me'n'my main man Guo Jian.
Daughter stumbled across a marker and some of Guo Jian's work documents. Bad combination.
Next, off to eat some late-night skewers. You get your own little BBQ thingie.
And a plate of yummy little soy beans.
MmmMMmm ... BBQ goodness.
What's that? Need a new logo? Why not plagiarize two existing logos and create something new and exciting.
Getting ready to head out the next morning.
Moving in China isn't much different than in the west. Except that you get 3-4 people along with that truck for 30$ for the day.
At the temple complex. The Chinglish was fantastic.
The locals can't help but mention that the temple used to be very small and simple until the monks discovered they could charge lots of money for admission.
Rawr!
Hahahaha. No sun for me!
These temple complexes really don't every differ that much.
But there are always lots of Buddha statues.
And lots of carvings and writings and the like.
At the top of the hill, there's a park where lots of locals come and hang out and play.
And worry about fire!
Apparently parts of this temple date back over 1600 years.
And give great views of the city.
You can pay money to buy one of these red strips and write something lucky or whatever on it and tie it to a tree and then for sure 100% definitely it will come true. They're almost always about money or meeting a rich guy or hot girl.
Here is a panorama of the whole city, looking at the Yunlonghu on the left and towards the TV tower and downtown on the right.
That's the lake I was visiting yesterday. Again, city's not that big.
Okay!
If there's a hill here, there's a temple on it.
Put your incense in here.
There's a huge Buddha head and soldiers in here. There are also ancient stone carvings that Chairman Mao had his soldiers smash in revolutionary fervor.
Names of the people who have built or worked on these buildings over the years.
Well, even Buddhists gotta have scary dragons.
Next, around lunchtime, we went to a civil war monument to the huge Xuzhou battle.
And that's it.
The carvings were done by the same guy who did a lot of the stuff at Tian'an'men.
These are the names of many of the people who died at the battle.
I'm sorry, not guys, martyrs.
Who's that?
It's the Chairman, alright!
These are copies of the Chairman's writing. They are a great inspiration to us all.
This sign shows the Chinese have a sense of humour.
Lunchtime!
水煮鱼. Delicious fish-y stuff.
Onions and tofu.
Ducks' blood, tofu noodles, and vegetables. Quite good, actually.
And finally a huge massive 100 million RMB museum to the battle of Xuzhou, completed only last year.
No photos inside (mostly guns and pictures of martyrs and horrible bad enemy people who totally deserved what they got), so more of the outside.
It's actually one of the better put-together museums I've seen in China, with properly correct English and everything.
The rhetoric actually wasn't all that bad either. Much more muted than I expected.
And back at Xuzhou station waiting to hop the train back to the 'jing
This is the D train (started out at Shanghai) pulling into the station. A bit late, but still cool. 
The train was 15 minutes late, so everybody was a bit crabby.
Including tacky clothes girl.
Near the town of Yanzhou (兖州), I think this is the Yan River, for which it is named.
Shandong province is a big agricultural place, so there are fields as far as the eye can see with people working in them all the time.