Suzhou Amusement Land

First, a photo.....

I've seen a lot of crazy fashions in China but this is one of my favorites.  Where do we start? The lavender ice skating costume, the 5 inch glittery gogo heels, the velour elephant backpack, or the nylons with giant shiny rocks glued to them and no shorts so her vajayjay is on display for everyone's edification.  I might note that I took this picture at the train station at about 2:30 in the afternoon.

Also, do you remember in my last blog I mentioned the people at Walmart lined up for eggs? Well today I took a photo of it!

And this is only half the line, the rest of it snakes around the corner! 

 I'm so happy to be amongst fellow egg lovers.

One thing that you can count in Chinese restaurants is elaborate plastic representations of the food.  Since I'm illiterate in China, I'm thankful for these creations. They allow me to order food by pointing and saying, "I want this" in Chinese.  Though I've found that the food doesn't actually look like the plastic, at lease I can kind of tell what's in it.

And now...pics from our day at Suzhou Amusement Land.  A ridiculous, bizarre theme park with fun rides.  Which we visited on the hottest day of the summer.

Wait...am I in Prague?

Oh wait, the side of that cottage has The Hulk attached to it. Nope, not Prague we're definitiely in China.

Not exactly sure what the theme of the park was supposed to be but it was entertaining.

Arcade competitions! Several people gathered around Nicole and I while we played air hockey, apparently it's not a popular game at the arcade, people were curious. 

I persuaded everybody to put there prize tickets together to get James this precious Garfield stuffed animal.  For my own amusement, I'm trying to build an emasculating doll collection at his house. Now he has three :)

So apparently Yogi Bear is a popular thing in China?  We went to a 4-D movie (where water sprays at you and the ground shakes, etc.) all themed around the movie which I definitely haven't seen.

All day long we kept getting on these crazy rides and I'dget a little nervous when I'd look down and the harness would say, "Made in China" in big letters across my chest.  Poor Timo, he's 7'8" and every ride that we went on he'd wait in line forever only to get to the front and have them say he couldn't ride because he's too tall! After awhile he and I ditched our ride going friends and went to an IMAX, condensed version of Happy Feet entirely in Chinese. It was confusing but at least it was air conditioned.   

  And they did let him on the bumper cars ;)

My favorite picture ever.  Helen and I on the super drop. 

There was a part when I thought, "This is it.  This is the moment when I'm going to die."

Then there was an event where my friends pushed me up on stage during a singing competition.  I mostly remember a sea of cell phones pointed in my direction. 200 Chinese people now have a video of me singing "I Will Survive." I'm sure it's circulating the internet with some title like, "Sweaty foreigner dances around to English song!"

 I have to admit I ate some super sketchy food at the amusement, including a hotdog and some chicken that I was pretty sure had been sitting out for awhile.  But there was a lot of mystery food and my options were limited.  

 No corn dogs, hamburgers, or churros to be found but someone bought a coconut and Ben spent a lot of time scoring it with Jarod's pocket knife, passing out little pieces at a time.  Strangest fair food ever.

And then we finished off the night WITH THIS!! 

Foreigners in feathers and a Gangnem Style impersonator.