China Canals

Zhoushan, China is an island just a little south-west of Shanghai. This island has tons of canals all threw it, like Venice and Amsterdam. This island however has tons of trash just flying around, so most of it ends up in these canals. To try to keep the canals clean they have people who are on little small engine wood boats scoping it up with a little net (like the kind you see people cleaning pools with but handmade versions). And then dumping it at the proper dump sites. These are pictures of some guys cleaning up.

Lets go fly a kite!

Not much to do today so we decided to just walk around town. There is a park near a port that we like to go and watch the ships go by and watch the kids play. Today someone was selling kites! I haven't flown a kite in years. Troy has only flown a kite once in his life (not that it was to obvious LOL). Also I would like to point out i have never in my life had braided pigtails LOL. I just watched a movie last night with someone wearing them and i thought to myself..."hey my bangs are finally long enough to do that". So this was my first attempt at it LOL!

Ronald!!!

Every Saturday that we have been in Zhoushan we have made a trip to the only McDonalds on the island. It is a 30 min drive, one way, to get there. It is a 40 RMB taxi ride ($6). Today while there we had a celebrity sighting...thats right Ronald McDonald in the flesh people!