In JFK airport, we cannot find a rest area. People everywhere. So we go back to the AirTran waiting room where it's quiet with less people. We can have seat. So they finally sent down to play ipad game.
Checked in, and in waiting area. It's always a smart choice to bring handcraft material for kids at their age. We got up 5am and during flight transfer , we have to stay JFK for 8 hours. Except eating and walking to different facilities, all we can do is to find some meaning way to kill time.
Dwelling among those skyscrapers of steel and cement, again, I feel myself as a tiny individual. After a sleepless night, ( because of jet lag ), I got up around 4:30am. The sky was turning bright.
I was too hungry, probably missed 3 meals including breakfast t airplane. To save space for good food, I didn't eat the cookies provided in hotel room.
It's a morning fair near my hotel. Walking one block, I saw it , probably there were some breakfast restaurant in the end.
Dirty, noise, and hot, taking one picture, then I hurried to go away.
Soybean milk, tasted very Soy-bean smell. I like it.
I like any Chinese traditional breakfast which I could not access in US.
Vivien and Larry watch 喜羊羊与灰太狼，in hotel room. a very successful children tv series. They burst out laugh time and again.
We live in Howard and Johnson, shanghai JingAn location. It's a nice stay.
At noon, we headed Zhejiang. I listen music, they do handcraft.
It seems they always enjoy train traveling , especially they got something to do.
This is a train station in a small town of zhejiang province. Because of big population, even small train station makes me think of airport.
I told a relative of my kids who drove me to catch the train, it is good to build a large train station for a small town, with extra space. It will fill up soon in near future.
It's comfortable, fast, quiet and with good window view. Traveling by train is always a blast.
Of course, I take GAO Tie , siting in first class seat of a view-seeing room.
It's super comfortable on this trip. The room is clean and quiet. Surrounding with sportify piano from my Bose headphone, I start to fell love with traveling in China.
I can even pull out hidden table to put my studying book. But it's hard to concentrate to study though.
Boats and river the train passed by when we headed for Nanking , where I will stop and transfer to the train to Qingdao.
Nanking railway station, bird-view from second floor. It's modern, huge, and organized.
Bird-view from third floor of Nanking south railway station, the lobby/ waiting room is pretty large. I have been a lot of stations in Beijing, shanghai, qingdao, nanjing. I guess most train station will be as this large and modern.
To me, I just feel tired to walk from one spot to another. Standing in such a huge safe, in noisy crowd, I can only feel myself as a tiny human individule.
I love small cozy place. So now I start to miss this old small wooden-built train stations in US?
Very delicious, 鸭血粉丝汤， a Nanking local food, not too salty, you can add spicy. It's made of duck meat, and duck blood.
I love it, and will take one for dinner on the train.
Costa coffee shop.
About three hours to kill, I am neither thirsty nor hungry, went to this coffee shop for a rest. This is a Starbucks competitor, certainly a similar style.
