You can tremble, you can feel it, but keep your fighting spirit alive, boys!

Last night, as I walked back from S' birthday, I ran into L and J. I asked them where they got their haircut since they both have short hair like me. They said they were going tomorrow and I was welcome to tag along. I agreed. 

I was originally going to meet them there, but when they came over this morning, they told me that their church was near an awesome old street and it was fun to walk along. Well, since I haven't explored and they mentioned traditional Chinese medicine shops, I was totally in!

We took a taxi there and agreed to meet back around 1pm to go get out hair cut. I wandered around. Here's my adventure in pictures:

This looks like an old house turned into a wall.

Another cool decorated wall.

Wall that looks like the inside of a house.

Little stream that ran all along. Lots of kids were playing in it.

It supplies European royal families. I wonder what with?

Loom in the middle of the street

Down a little alley were ALL these places to eat. See the cooked duck heads?

Crabs on a stick

Meat on a stick. Maybe some raticken?

I don't know what these are. They are wrapped in leaves, then shoved in a hot pot. The leaves get all burned. Something is inside of them. 

Dragon's bread candy. Made fresh on the street.

Entrance to a Chinese medicine shop

Lots of fun boxes of stuff

Pounding peanut candy. It smelled yummy....

Cute side street.

Maybe they're beetles? All of the traditional shops had them.

Neat decorated building.

Tea shop. Classic girl with umbrella to shield her from heat.

Green tea

Peanut stuff with ice cream.

Shop

Bronze statues of days gone by

Looks like some soldier costumes.

This reminded me of my days at Splendid China.

I thought this was the entrance to a temple, but....

it was a art museum of a goldsmith/sculpture artist.

Hello Budda

There was a HUGE version of this outside. I like the little one with all the little budda behind him.

Classic Hanzghou bridge

Chinese Years. I'm an Ox!

Medicine shop before you walk in. 

On the other side.

Medicine

Some sort of roots

Yup, an original shop. One of 5 in Hangzhou that have been around since the 13th Dynasty.

AWESOME flowers!!

Prayer flags

Entrance to a 2nd old medicine shop

I want to know what that black stuff is up top

Official entrance

From here, I met up with L and J. We had lunch and then went off to Toni and Guy's. It's a hair salon where they have some experience with Western hair. Both L and J have lived in Beiijing. They actually taught at my 3rd choice school. They said it was good that I didn't choose to go there. :) they said many people went to their hair salon in Beiijing. 

The salon does prices based on how much experience you person has. We both did the 180 rmb one, which is around $30. I had my hair washed and cut, like in America. I have curly hair. It's not a good idea to blow dry curly hair, especially short hair because it turns into a poof ball. It was all dry and poof-ish. He asked if I liked it and, based on what I could see, it look decent. I said yes, and then went to get it washed again He kept tosseling my hair as he cut it and my cut off bits were flying everywhere. I guess it was a good thing they washed it. Then, they used a defusher to blow dry it. They still styled it so it was poofy, but it looked good. 

I miss Lynzy who does an amazing job cutting my hair, with layers and thinning it out. This will do for now. 

L is behind me getting her hair cut as well. It's all men. 

All in all, I had a great day. I'm sunburned now, but totally worth it!