Interesting signs & sights

At any given time, while out and about in China, we have seen some very interesting things!  Here are just a few for your enjoyment...

a wine vending machine in the building we went to for Audra's passport picture...

you can borrow an umbrella on the subway platform...

 

a true waterboy...

 

people put their empty drink bottles in the back window of the bus...

 

a double deck parking space at a shopping mall garage...

(I don't know what happens when the top car is ready to leave before the bottom car?!)

 

 

Sometimes the English translation on signs sounds a bit funny:

 

 

 

 

Parents allow their children to do things we could never imagine:

Standing with their head out of the sunroof in a moving car...

Audra has been a lap rider while in vehicles here in China, as carseats are basically unheard of...but she will be straped into a 5 point harness carseat the minute we hop in a car in the US

Peeing anywhere, anytime: sidewalk, bush, side of the rode...
(sorry...just couldn't bring myself to post a picture of this)
 

One time while we were out shopping Audra started pulling her pants down.  Without a restroom in sight I asked the store owner if the shop had a restroom...she led me to a back room with hole in the floor, literally!  That was to closest I ever got to letting her pee in public.

While I still prefer a western toilet to the traditional Chinese squatty potty for myself, I must say that I have perfected the art of assisting Audra in using a sqatty potty and actually prefer it over a toilet when using public restrooms. 

(this is a sparkling clean squatty...believe me, most look much worse than this one!)

Some of the very interesting things for sale on the streets of China:

fresh sugar cane juice...

animal fur of your choice...

Bicycle loads are HUGE and delivery of just about anything is possible:

  

 

Pizza Hut, McDonald's and Burger King all  have bicycle delivery!

 

Steaming hot cake for sale...