We Made It... Barely.

I'm writing from my hostel in Yangshuo to let everyone know that we made it safely, albeit not easily. Let me give you a brief synopsis of how the travel went.

• Walk to the end of the road outside the school
• Catch a cab that Laurra thinks is sketchy and will sell us to the sex trade
• Ride to the train station
• Take a 3 hour train ride to Shanghai amongst millions of smelly Asians
• Camp out in a McDonalds outside the train station for 4 and a half hours
• Listen to the same exact song in said McDonalds about 90 times. Yes, we did calculate
• Take the Metro to the other train station in Shanghai
• Meet life saving man on the Metro (we would have missed our train to Guilin without him)
• Take the train to Guilin, which was a completely dreadful and unpleasant 23 hours amongst billions of smelly Asians, on a hard seat which was impossible to sleep on
• Go to the bus station and purchase tickets to Yangshuo
• Wait around for two hours because the bus is delayed. 
• Buy delicious dumplings off the street
• Take bus to Yangshuo that was supposed to be one hour, but was indeed three
• Get dumped in the middle of the city
• Realize that National Holiday in Yangshuo means that the streets are as crowded as Times Square on New Year's Eve. No freakin' exaggeration.
• Consider ending your own life right then and there when you realize you have to drag a suitcase through these mass hoards of people
• Realize that there are some awesome clubs in Yangshuo and that we're gettin' our party on tomorrow night
• FINALLY make it to the hostel and take a shower, brush my teeth, and sleep for the first time in three days

Sorry for the lazy blogging, but I can truthfully say that I've never been so exhausted in my entire life and I have a busy day ahead of me. Nighty night!