Vitamin D

Both of us have been under the weather the past few days. Maybe it was the fried dork in chinese sauce or the truck stop noodles in Shandong on our way south, but we have had the Hershey Squirts as Lynne refers to the runs. For the Europeans sake, Hershey is a big chocolate bar maker in North America! Yangzhou in Jiangsu Province was a very pleasant respite despite our health. China has 36 West Lakes, named after the one in Hangzhou I believe, and so we sat in the sun at Yangzhou's version yesterday and soaked up Vitamin D and tour group megaphone sound (in the background most of the time since we gave them a wide berth). To-day we are in Suzhou, famous for its Silk Road connection. We had pizza, our first fast food (in and out quickly) so far.