In Luo Yang

We are in Luo Yang at the moment. We arrived yesterday by bus. The trip took 5 hours, which wasn't too bad. The busses simply drive along and honk at people walking along the road. If the people wave then they stop and pick them up. Would be a bummer if the bus was full.

We got up at about 7 this morning, had some breakfast and then got on the busfor Shaolin. It did some winding to other places soi Iwill try tosummerise. The first place it went was were the Monk from monkey magic was taught. The second place was the grave of the monkey magic monk.

Then we finally actually arrived in Shaolin. It is way up in the mountains, yet still at the base of some mountians. First off we went to a Shaolin Temple, and had a bit of a look around. Got lots of photos and some video. Next it was off to the main Shaolin Kung-fu school where we watched 40 minutes of kung fu displays. It was really good. I think we both like the kid that did the frog impression the best. I have the whole thing on video which should be good.

Then after that we went to the Shaolin temple. It was under a lot of restoration with two new buildings being made as well, but still it was very nice towalkaround. Unfortunatly it has rained most of the day on us, but that hasn't been too bad, it has been pretty light and straight down rain (not angley).

We then headed back to Luo Yang, arriving at 5pm this evening. We then had dinner. Sammy this is for you, we have been trialling Sweet and Sour pork (or it's closest counterpart) in each city we have stayed in. So far Xian rates the best of three, but we still have shanghai and beijing.

We are now wasting some time until our train arrives at 10pm tonight.

Oh, and by the way, Di forgot to log out of MSN messenger at Xian, so if anyone thinks they were talking to heror she was being rude it's because it was still logged in. Hopefully the computer has been restarted since then and sheis now logged out :)