Frieda thought to herself....she really was excited to travel!! Well the day approaches and they are finishing getting ready! Frieda is really nervous because she really wants to leave on time and she knows that Bort is always late!!! SO, she pushes and prods for them to leave! They finally leave and they catch a taxi to the train station, they are a little early but they soon find their car they are supposed to be in! Frieda didn't know what to expect so when she stepped into the train she was a little suprised! There are rows and rows of beds in the train...six in each sleeping quarter and not really that much privacy. Bort Frieda and Gabe wait patiently for there train to leave...Frieda looks around a bit, suprised at how different everything is. The train starts to move and frieda is up looking through the window. Amazed at how pretty china is...amazed at how big it is too! She didn't realize there was so much outside of the city.
Frieda takes out her camera and tries to capture the beauty but knows a camera just doesn't do justice! They make their way to there destination...eating and sleeping on the way. While Frieda and Gabe are amazed at the view Bort just lies in bed learning chinese and sleepin! Frieda looks around some more on the train and looks in the bathroom to see how that situation is...knowing that its going to be a chinese squatting toilet but hoping for an american toilet. To her dismay...she finds a chinese toilet!
They finally reach there destination at 5:00am...way to early they think. They are finally in Hubei...if only for a couple of hours. They purchase tickets for there second trip and have a couple hours to spare..so they decide they want to look around the city, maybe get some breakfast. SO, they go by the main road only to get stopped by a couple of guys asking if they want a ride on their bike. Bort starts to talk to them in mandarin and two other guys step up and try to convince Bort, Frieda and Gabe for a ride in their taxi. Bort finally settles on the bike people and ask the men to take them someplace to eat breakfast. The men reply that they know a great spot...little do Bort Frieda and Gabe know thats it's only a two minute walk from the train station. They get to the place to eat breakfast and give the men 8yuan for each bike..the men are nice enough to wait while they eat breakfast. They then take bort, frieda and gabe back to the train station demanding another 8 yuan...outrageous they complain...frieda finally decides that she feels bad and gives them 5 yuan.