First night in Xian

Seems to be the way of this trip is to go hard the first night and sit back and wince and try to recover the rest of the time. Headed out with Mike and Eve on an adventure after Eve asked where we could go. She also goes to GSU and is from Shanghai so her Mandarin is quite good, obviously, and its very nice when she's around. Unfortunately up until now she has been taking off straight after class for her "job" and we could never hang out. At any rate we made it over to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and heard there is a nice water show there. Ate a hella good meal at a veg restaurant where they are willing to shape tofu into anything. Lucky for us we got some pork like tofu, with the layers of fat and everything, some duck tofu, some lotus flower, and soup. Killer meal for quite cheap i think. The park was cool around the pagoda and filled up before the 830 start to the show. Was a mini Bellagio with the dancing waters to traditional music. They say it's the biggest fountain in Asia... More pictures with Chinese dudes followed the show. Always love that when people make you feel like a star.

After the big show headed out with the drinkin crew to 1+1 the only proper club in Xian. Was nice, had 5 floors all with different vibes and plenty of Chivas. We rolled in hard and set up shop in the number one VIP room and bought the bar. Actually just some vodka and Chivas and some food and mixers. Came out to less than $10 each. Total deal. They mix the whiskey with green tea. Must remember this for it is quite tasty. Drank up walked around checking out the scene which consisted of all Chinese people, us, and about 3 other white guys with Chinese girlfriends. True China and all the while a decent House DJ with crappy lady MC. Hot gogo dancers and all that. Chill on the top floor which was open to the sky but the real action was later on after some really wasted Chinese dude started buying shots for Mike and I. Well sharing his bottle anyway. Invaded some other VIP rooms with Anni dancing his arse off and being a bit sloppy. Headed out and ran into some tall "girls" who were staring me down. Went over to the room and the security guy was pointing them out to me and telling me to head over but i had a bit of a funny feeling. Brad, our team leader, sauntered over and asked if i wanted to talk to them and went to bring them over. They came over and we found out through our context clues - big hands and feet, low voice, cheekbones, and being from Thailand that they were ladyboys. What a surprise. Through sign language we figured out one was pre-op and the other post-op. Had a good laugh with them and they went back to their dancing. Now, Anni comes along and i tell Mike to tell him the girls want to dance with him. He's all for it and after about 10 minutes of grinding it's just too much. Have to tell him and he tries to play it off and hugs them and kisses them even more. In the cab on the way home he makes fun of us southern boys but the easy response is that we weren't dancing with dudes. Next day we all have a good laugh and it's over. Guess it doesn't matter where you are or what the culture.