China Trip – Day #2

buffet3
6.30AM, I’m the first at Buffet Breakfast (as usual!!!).

buffet2
OMG where do I start?! Mum loves a good buffet brekkie too!

buffet
So much variety. I could eat here all day!

I had a little trouble getting to sleep last night. No weed, and YouTube has been banned on the Hotel WiFi (so too all video streaming services) so I couldn’t use that to help me get to sleep (couldn’t figure the TV out lol!). I ended up having to raid the mini-fridge.

view
Morning view from my room.

view2
That China haze, but at least the sky is blue-ish?!

julius
My Uncle Julius is a big time lawyer in Indo (and he loves his new hat!).

bus
All aboard the bus!

factory
Our first stop was to visit my brother’s HUGE print factory (one of 5 in China!).

heidelberg
At the entrance, this awesome Heidelberg which is pretty much exactly the same one which The Distillery used to print my businsess cards (which cost $4 each to make!!!).

print
These guys can also do in-house design work.

disney
And some of their clients include: Disney…

aussiecheese
… And Aussie clients!

homedepot
And Home Depot!

tv
And they make packaging for anything, from TV’s to inflatable pools.

cutter
One of many huge machines, this one seemed to cut paper into different sizes.

7mill
This is their latest machine which cost a cool US $7 million (!!!).

istatestlab
They even have their own Ista certified test lab to test all the boxes (and ensure products inside them are safe).

asercut
Laser cut goods.

goods
And here are just some of the goods they’ve made in the past. I’ve now got a great contact at the factory that speaks amazing english! ZEN BOXES TO COME!!!!!!

yumcha
Yum Cha was amaze. So China, so good!

indomen
Indo men, we smoke!

coffeeashtray
Loved the coffee ashtray touch at this cafe.

fishing

kid

car
This took me by surprise and reminds me of seeing UFO’s in Ancient Egyptian wall art.

house
We then visited the home that my Grandpa made for his adopted kids 50+ years ago. Check it out, it’s so Architecturally unique, so solid (they sure as hell built houses differently back in the day!). I think it’ll last forever.

courtyard
The courtyard, I’d so do my Wing Chun here.

granite
Solid granite handrail and staircase all the way to the 3rd floor where the lady of the house took her own life. I was asked if I’d like to check out the 3rd floor but out of respect I decided not to go up.

buildingsacrosshouse
There are now many buildings across the road from the house but back in the day it was the only house around.

shopping
After spending some time at the house, we did a bit of shopping.

dinner
Dinner was even more amaze than lunch as I ate and drank a whole lotta stuff I’ve never had before!

cake
We have a B’Day on the trip!

happybdaysong

bdayboy
Loved how long the B’Day paused for when asked to make a wish, man it must have been one seriously heavy wish…

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