Lady in the Water (Town): Day 8

Today Zheng picked me up at 10:30am and drove me to a small, ancient town an hour outside of Shanghai called Zhouzhuang Water Town. Katherine said it's like the Venice of China. The ancient town is built around waterways where you can take gondola rides and shop and eat and watch people make blankets and knit baby booties and make strange foods with mystery meats and grains and other stuff I've never seen, all wrapped up in some kind of leaf and tied closed with some kind of vine. It was cool to watch, but I didn't try one because I think the mystery meat was pork (everything is pork here). So instead, I ate 3 ("THREE! RIGHT HERE! THREE!") scorpions on a stick (video included) and had my feet chewed on by fish (video also included). In the video, you can also hear people asking me my name and trying to pronounce it (like 12 times) Apparently it ain't easy to say. I do love China. I think I could live here (but I think I'd have to change my name to something easy like Ju or Mu or Ru or Su or Tu. Those are all legit names here. They like to keep it simple.) I could also change my name to "Lady." In fact, after my experience at the shops the other day, I think that IS my Chinese name. No long story of my adventures today. Just cool pics

of my day in an awesome ancient Chinese town.

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