Two Tickets to Paradise

We have returned from a three day trip to what I can only describe as the paradise of China. Since we were officially done student teaching, we took a little trip to the Zhoushan Islands in the East China Sea. 

After packing up two backpacks the day before and getting some important phrases translated by a teacher at the school (such as beach, mountain, and bus station), we set off early Thursday morning in a cab to the bus station.  We bought our bus tickets and spent four hours on a bus to the big island of Zhoushan.  To get there, we crossed a ten mile bridge!!  The bus dropped us on the southern tip of the island, and from there we took another bus to our hotel on the island of Zhujiajian (reachable by bus).  Our hotel was beautiful complete with a balcony that looked over the golden beach.  The beach we stayed at is famous for the annual sand sculpture competition held there.  We spent the rest of that day walking the beach and returned for truly unique dinner.