Views from the Royal Hotel. I think this is the ninth floor.
As we leave the hotel, something goes wrong. (Despite conflicts amongst the Loveboat campers, I think we can still agree on one thing in this picture: the food was decently tasty.)
A view from the bus as we head towards XiaoRenGuo.
Another view from the bus. No wait---
A huge water splash! I test a multi-umbrella defense against it. (The anticlimax: the spray actually doesn't come anywhere near me.)
We move the umbrella defense right into the path of the water splash.
Here's the survivor!
Angela has a more comprehensive plan of defense.
The ride.
The splash. (Don't expect a picture to follow up on this---I'm now running away as fast as I can to protect my camera.)
Defense? Who needs defense?
Here's a shot to put the next series in context. It's the same ride, and Chris is...uh...posing. The kid in black thinks Chris has problems.
Now that you've seen Chris's pose, don't let him distract you. Pay attention to Angela in the background. (When Rob appears, watch him, too.)
On the way back to the buses.
Photography is fun because pictures can tell stories, but they don't have to tell the whole story. Here's a story of a loving couple. What the photo doesn't tell you is that Pauline is on the wrong bus, braving counselor wrath to be with Wallace.
And we've returned to Jiantan. Here we're trying out the new external camera flash, made possible by generous donations from Buses C and D and several individual campers. (Don't look straight at the flash!)
When a person has a halo around her head, does it blind nearby people?