22nd July. Dalian

I took a walk along the shoreline today in Dalian. From the Forest Zoo to the new district's Xin Hai Square, about 2km. Sun was scorching as I was walking at around lunchtime, but sea breeze cooled stuff down :) The new district was really modern, with many high-rise buildings and clean roads. The path led to the square, which had a range of fair ground rides on one side, and then this memorial thing as the main attraction there. I thought it looked like a huge shallow halfpipe but it's actually an open book. I climbed to the edge but then my shoes gave way and I started slipping down so I was like shitttt, couldn't stop sliding til I was halfway down again. I felt silly.

Leading up to the open book was a long thing of footprints, belonging to about 1000 people from Dalian, old and young. I think most of the feet belonged to someone with some kind of importance as it was a thing to celebrate Dalian's 100th birthday or something. It took AGES to walk out of the square and find the right bus stop but I got there in the end :) Went into town and bought some stuff. Yayyy shopping :) Didn't get as lost as I thought I would.. literally like a maze down there.. a non-square maze.

Meghan's father was home today. He is an artist. And this automatically made him cool. And he was. Her parents drove me east after dinner along the coast as there were some nice views ^_^
It fucking stormed like it was no tomorrow in the evening, from like 9 til early this morning. Never have I seen so much lightning and thunder! And as we are in a loft apartment, it was closer to the action than I would have preferred.

Oh, I saw a guy selling little turtles on the street. I REALLY WANTED ONE. Flightfail.