Tea Tasting, Moon Cake Day, and Photography

The other day we went to a tea shop where they had all kinds.  The lady would boil hot water and then poor it in a tea pot with tea leaves, and then poor the water into another pot without the leaves, and then poor each of us little cups of tea.  I must have had at least 114 cups, everytime you finished a cup she would refill it, and then she would poor the rest on some frog sculptures for good luck.  That night, they had a huge firework display on the river in-between the city.  It was pretty awesome, and in honor of Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Day.  They eat a ton of moon cakes or mini pastries on that day.  I guess two guys were tight-rope walking across the river six stories up as well, but I didn't see that.

Yesterday I went around downtown and photographed with a fellow Chinese teacher.  We ran into four couples doing some wedding photos, happy kids playing in the park, old men playing chinese chess and betting on the streets, Xiangfan museum exhibiting thousands of years old artwork, dogs the size of rats, and man other cool sites.