Sept 30th Trek to Mordor

In Xichang on the way to Yading.*background China was celebrating their 60th Anniversary on being the People's Republic. So a lot of people got time off from work and school, including US foreigners (though ours was significantly cut down). Some students stayed home, my normal group of friends were going to the Mosu Village and Eric was flying by the seat of his pants. Here is my entry:
This was the start of our journey. Perhaps I should have known something like this was coming. The night before I had gone to dinner with some of the dorm mates and then a few of us went to the foreign bar "pan am" where we drank absinthe. So on my way home I was feeling pretty good. Eric called to confirm I wanted in on traveling to yading. This trip was supposed to be fairly cheap minus the 600 kuai plane ticket to xichang...ha.
I sort of wanted to stay in Chengdu for the holiday so I could just be lazy and study and practice guitar...but I was committed to this trip and so I went. We got there and found a hotel. (We= Eric, Thibaut and myself) We started out to find a place for dinner and then suddenly I got that funny feeling in my belly (you know the kind that's like...hey better find a toilet and fast). So the boys walked me back to the hotel and I told them to go out without me. I did my business, drank some sprite, took pepto (thanks Dad for making me bring that to China) and was in and out of sleep. The boys stopped in with some food (which I did not, could not eat *(SAM I AM)...I think I had a bite and wanted to vomit) and a few of our friends who were in Xichang as well (because they were on their way to the Mosou village to see the women who are known for "walking marriage"). I don't remember much as I felt like poo.
Eric got up early the next day and bought us tickets for yanyuan. He had wanted to buy tickets to muli but they were sold out. So around 6 or 7 we got up and headed to the bus station. I was feeling mostly better. Yanyuan I wasn't impressed by but we weren't there for all that long. We were just trying to find a way to get to Muli. There were no buses going there so we had to try and find a private ride and of course the people that are offering are trying to rip you off. Finally some guy says he can get us one for cheap. So we're hanging out in this bus lot for quite sometime. There were tiny tiny kittens hanging about, Thibaut fed one some crackers. We finally got a ride for a decent price and headed out.