Some pictures from our trip to Chongqing.
The local styles of Lisa Miller Traditional costumes Lisa posing with a colorful poodle
The local styles of Lisa Miller Traditional costumes Lisa posing with a colorful poodle
trying a traditional instrument of minority groups
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At the end of April, Lisa and I went on our last stretch of adventure and traveling by flying out to Chongqing, China which is the largest city in China. (I know, you would think Beijing right? :) I think that is it up there in the 2omillion category or something, which is pretty impressive considering the largest city in the world is Mexico City and that was around 26 1/2 million. )
So, one of the many good things about China is that the Hilton's over here are not that expensive. I had looked up some of the Hilton's in China and chose this place. It ended up being a beautiuful 5 star hotel for about $40 USD/night. I got it on a really good deal with my credit crd though. I had to book it way back in Jan during a winter sale that they were having. I was hoping to take Lisa there to go on a river cruise along the Yangtze river to see the three gorges.
What we quickly realized is that Chongqing is only one of the major starting points for the river cruise. The shortest cruise they had was a 2 day cruise, and we had already booked our hotel each night. So, we did what I would like to call a "Lisa vacation." Haha.
As some of you may or may not know, my idea of a vacation is to do as much as we can and to see as much as we can, and take as many pictures as you can. That way I will have it all there to remember.
As a child, I did not go on hardly any vacations, so now when I do, and esp since we are paying for it and I don't know when we will ever be there again, I want to really see and experience that place. (This of course caused some difficulties with the travel weary Blair and Debbie when they came to see us last month! Haha)
But, when we realized that our main reason for going to Chongqing was the gorges cruise and it was no longer available, we then decided to just try and stay around the hotel and enjoy its many amenities.
So, we just relaxed and had an absolutely great time just spending time alone together. No cell phone or work to do. Just time with the two of us. We swam in their pool, enjoyed the great bathroom, huge comfortable bed, tv, etc.
We actually ended up spending more there on food than we did on our hotel stay! Haha. Well,the first night there was free with my hotel points, and with that, you do not get breakfast included. It almost makes you wish you had paid for the hotel, because the cost of breakfast alone is around $100RMB/person. So there goes your savings right there, haha.
But, the first night we were there, we indulged ourselves in their seafood buffet. Being as we paid quite a bit for it, we took as many huge shrimps as we could, had excellent pork spare ribs, which were amazing, and cheesecake, and more.
We were definitely trying to fulfill our sterotype of fat americans as we got plate after plate! Haha.
The funny thing too about it was that the third night that we were there, I was joking with Lisa that they didn't like us anymore. The first night that we were there, the staff was excellent and would take our plate away right away. However, after seeing how much we could pack away the first night, it seemed like they were trying to stop us from eating them out of house and home. Haha. The plates began to stack up on our table. Yet, we weren't going to let them get the best of us. I went up 3 times to get a small slice of cappucino cheesecake. It was amazing! (And don't think the cheesecake factory. These pieces were small, so my three were like one slice at cheesecake factory.)
They had had a mexican theme that night, but we were pretty disappointed by it. Lisa actually had to make tacos when we went home just to make up for it. The rest of the buffet was good though.
All in all, it was a great trip. We plan to hopefully go back next year though to actually do the river cruise. :)
We are slowly trying to stay up to date with our blog and posts. We hope anyone and everyone reading this is doing well!
At the end of April, Lisa and I went on our last stretch of adventure and traveling by flying out to Chongqing, China which is the largest city in China. (I know, you would think Beijing right? :) I think that is it up there in the 2omillion category or something, which is pretty impressive considering the largest city in the world is Mexico City and that was around 26 1/2 million. )
So, one of the many good things about China is that the Hilton's over here are not that expensive. I had looked up some of the Hilton's in China and chose this place. It ended up being a beautiuful 5 star hotel for about $40 USD/night. I got it on a really good deal with my credit crd though. I had to book it way back in Jan during a winter sale that they were having. I was hoping to take Lisa there to go on a river cruise along the Yangtze river to see the three gorges.
What we quickly realized is that Chongqing is only one of the major starting points for the river cruise. The shortest cruise they had was a 2 day cruise, and we had already booked our hotel each night. So, we did what I would like to call a "Lisa vacation." Haha.
As some of you may or may not know, my idea of a vacation is to do as much as we can and to see as much as we can, and take as many pictures as you can. That way I will have it all there to remember.
As a child, I did not go on hardly any vacations, so now when I do, and esp since we are paying for it and I don't know when we will ever be there again, I want to really see and experience that place. (This of course caused some difficulties with the travel weary Blair and Debbie when they came to see us last month! Haha)
But, when we realized that our main reason for going to Chongqing was the gorges cruise and it was no longer available, we then decided to just try and stay around the hotel and enjoy its many amenities.
So, we just relaxed and had an absolutely great time just spending time alone together. No cell phone or work to do. Just time with the two of us. We swam in their pool, enjoyed the great bathroom, huge comfortable bed, tv, etc.
We actually ended up spending more there on food than we did on our hotel stay! Haha. Well,the first night there was free with my hotel points, and with that, you do not get breakfast included. It almost makes you wish you had paid for the hotel, because the cost of breakfast alone is around $100RMB/person. So there goes your savings right there, haha.
But, the first night we were there, we indulged ourselves in their seafood buffet. Being as we paid quite a bit for it, we took as many huge shrimps as we could, had excellent pork spare ribs, which were amazing, and cheesecake, and more.
We were definitely trying to fulfill our sterotype of fat americans as we got plate after plate! Haha.
The funny thing too about it was that the third night that we were there, I was joking with Lisa that they didn't like us anymore. The first night that we were there, the staff was excellent and would take our plate away right away. However, after seeing how much we could pack away the first night, it seemed like they were trying to stop us from eating them out of house and home. Haha. The plates began to stack up on our table. Yet, we weren't going to let them get the best of us. I went up 3 times to get a small slice of cappucino cheesecake. It was amazing! (And don't think the cheesecake factory. These pieces were small, so my three were like one slice at cheesecake factory.)
They had had a mexican theme that night, but we were pretty disappointed by it. Lisa actually had to make tacos when we went home just to make up for it. The rest of the buffet was good though.
All in all, it was a great trip. We plan to hopefully go back next year though to actually do the river cruise. :)
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