So this spontaneous weekend started the day before, on Friday. As usual the TA's and I went to The Old Junk which is a bar not too far away where 2 of the TA's perform live music which is awesome. On the way there Ali and I met Bryan and Yolanda, a business man and his Chinese girlfriend and we invited them with us to the bar... There we had some drinks with them and found out that they were also bound to Guangzhou the next day for some business. We decided to meet up with them the next night to go out and party. On our itinerary we had several objectives: Shamian Island, Qingping animal market, shopping at Beijing Lu, Ikea, and clubbing. However, half of our first day was spent trying to find our
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