Chengdu day

Went straight to the station today to book a train going anywhere but unfortunately we got stuck in a national holiday and so after a 3 hour wait there were no trains going anywhere for at least 5 days, we didn't have 5 days to wait so decided to rethink our plans.
I had wanted to see Guangzhou and so we went back to the hostel and booked the cheapest flight we could find from where we were to Guangzhou.
It turned out that this was from Chongqing, the town we just left! However this was no problem with a fast an easy train connection.
We booked the ticket for two days time giving a day to get to Chongqing and then flying the next day.
With that booked I sat down to do some homework again and kept at it for a few hours. In the end the staff brought me an IKEA candle lamp to work by as it had gotten dark.
The people on the table behind were 5 loud and young English girls who invited us over to their table and so after finishing my homework we went.
We sat together talking and drinking beers until late when we got hungry and took the spoiled English princesses back to our little BBQ street food place.
One of them had lived in china for a year but had not managed to pepersuade her visiting friends to try streetfood before but they seemed to like it!
After more beers there we went on out to a bar in the old town and paid way too much for awful beers, although they did keep the place open just for us. Two of the girls got in a massive fight and stormed off and one just sat there not listening.
One girl who was very drunk took quite a shine to Chris and I was left talking to the other. Walked back in the end and retreated away from the crazy foreigners to a very late bed!
Checking out the next morning we saw them again but barely spoke before we got the train back to Chongqing.
When we arrived in Chongqing we went back to the same restaurant as Chris had left his painting in and after elaine provided some phone translation we even managed to find the picture we had been looking for! They had kept it in lost property! It really was Chris 's lucky day!
After that we made it to the hostel and were very tired but still took an evening walk down to a local statue before an early bed.