Xi Tang

So last weekend, me and Gi Joe went to Xi Tang. If anyone saw Mission Impossible 3, this was the little village where they filmed the last 10 or 15 minutes of the movie. Remember where he was running along the river on the cell phone? Anyway they're really proud of this in the small town of XiTang. It's made them a lot of money and everyone got an autograph with Tom Cruise that they hang on the wall on the inside of their shops. It's a canal town, meaning there's a canal instead of a street and lots of little bridges. They refer to it as the "Venice" of China. I'm not gonna lie, there are a lot of little towns around Shanghai that are like that and they're all called the "Venice" of CHina. Or Maybe they're the Venice of Shanghai. I really just said Venice so you could get a mental image of what the town looked like. To be honest, you should just watch the movie. You'd get a much better image.

We were able to hire a boat with our own private tour guide (like in Venice) for a little ride around the town. It cost 100 yuan (like $15). We split it between us because we are FILTHY RICH and every other group that hired a boat split it with like 6-8 people. On the bus ride back, the bus was playing Kenny G's greatest hits or something, like all love songs. We looked around and saw that the bus was entirely filled with couples cuddling. Apparently this was a couples tour. Me and GI Joe sat awkwardly. That was when I realized why we got such a funny look when we got on the bus in the first place.