Wednesday Day 21: Sleeper Bus Fun

We made it through school today! Our vacation to yangshuo is what motivated us :P We got tons of moon cakes for the mid Autumn festival... they are pretty nasty :( 

Carmen eating her "delicious" moon cake 

We got all packed and went to the bus stop with everyone. We all crammed on the first bus, but got split up when we took our connecting bus to our sleeper bus. Luckily the group I was with knew the way so we made it there, but Allison and about 4 other people got lost, and barely made it there. They got off on the wrong spot and luckily a man spoke enough English to tell them which bus number to take. They got there barely 5 minutes before we were supposed to leave, so they were really lucky.

Sleeper bus! The beds are so small!

The little rest stop we got off at, and most of our group, along with some girls from another school. The toilets there were DISGUSTING! It was a trench along the ground with a ton of Asian women squatting next to each other. No privacy, but then again China doesn't have much of that.

The actual bus ride seemed very long. It was around 12 hours total, and I was awake for about 11 of them. The beginning was fun, we played some catchphrase and charades in the back and ate some peanut butter sandwiches, but after that it was not so fun. My bed was in front surrounded by Chinese people smoking in my face, so I moved to the back to try and sleep. We had 6 people in a space made for 3, so we were crammed tight to say the least. It was pretty uncomfortable and me and Brooke were just laying awake shifting around every few minutes or whispering to see if the other had fallen asleep yet. I watched some of X-men with Hayden, and listened to a little bit of Anastasia, which held me over for a few hours. Otherwise we just snacked on chips, crackers, and cookies and tried not to drink any water so we wouldn't have to pee again. We finally made it at 5 am and walked to our hostel. Everyone looked pretty scary, but at least the scenery was beautiful :-P