This post is the 1st installment of our Funny Signs in China series.
Indeed, we didn't see one frip in the whole place. It turns out frippery actually is an English word.
"LOOKOUT, KNOCK HEAD" in that order.
Ok, the story goes like this: at some point in time someone took someone else's inkslab from this room. And at some later point they returned the very same inkslab.
Beware the angry Chinese fire hose. 
Welcome to the Buddhism Store! 
We especially like the capitalization here: My Official Hat.
One China, one time zone, one toilet fits all.
This is a surprisingly common sign.
I LOVE THIS SIGN!!!! DON'T BEAT AROUND THE BUSH!
At the end of a long day we went to the oldest restaurant in Suzhou (old enough, supposedly, to have served some emperor or another in some dynasty) and they sat us on the dais ordinarily reserved for weddings and bar mitzvahs. 
OK, for you math & LaTeX people out there, the price of movie tickets here are irrational numbers! (And to get VIP tickets you need to solve for tau.)
Here's some closeups of the worms from the Suzhou Silk Museum
To start your Monday, here are some pictures and videos of our trip to the Grand Canal Water Town, Suzhou. We left Shanghai at six in the morning and returned an hour before midnight. We packed in as many tourist attractions as possible. We visited the Couples Garden, the Garden of the Master Nets (Wangshi Yuan), the Lion Grove Garden (Sizi Lin) ,the Twin Pagodas, the Temple Beisi Ta, and Suzhou's Silk Museum.
The Lion Grove Garden was our favorite. We enjoyed trying to figure out why the original garden curator thought the rocks looked like lions. We also had a great time relaxing in the garden's tea house, where we ate tough, dry corn on the cob and salty hard boiled brown eggs.
In this slide show: Water town canal, Twin Pagodas, inside Beisi Ta, Buddha outside Beisi Ta , garden pagodas, rocks that look like lions (what do you think?), beautiful garden lattice work
Everything in this video is actually in the Silk Museum
Suzhou Silk Museum
Seth particularly liked the lovely high-heeled silk shoes for women with bound feet. Adding insult to injury?
If you ever wanted to live in a musical, you need to visit China.
Dancing in the streets - watch more funny videos
We traveled to Suzhou this weekend, a water town 40 minutes by train from Shanghai. We imagined a tranquil venician town. Instead we found a city almost as crowded as Shanghai. Traveling by tuck tuck, we packed in nearly a dozen tourist destinations in one day. Here's an intense video starring our chauffeurs.
Enjoy! There is more to come. Get your browsers ready, we will blog every day this week.
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