Friday night we spent the night with cute little Sam. Gah, he is adorable!!!! So little and has the worlds cutest smile. His dad picked Abi and I up from the school with him and we were off!
We arrived at his apartment and holy crap it was nice! His family lives smack dab in the middle of Quenzhou. I'm not quite sure what his dad does, but they have lots and lots of money!! Their place was so nice I felt like I couldn't touch anything! Rather annoying.. Anyways! We got there right as dinner was finishing being cooked so perfect timing. It smelled a little fishy which is NOT my favorite thing. But it sucks for me because everybody here loves fish. Basically they would keep giving me a lot of food, and I would only eat some of it because it was mainly all fish. Bummer for sure!
Oh real fast.. His parents don't understand any English at all. Sam knows more than they do and he is 6 years old. So we had Nancy, his school teacher, come with us to be the interpretor. She is absolutely adorable and I love her!!
After dinner we went for a little walk around this lake and it was gorgeous!! Across the lake there was this pagoda that had white lights all around it, and it was perched up on this hill. So of course we asked if we could walk to the other side to see it. As we were walking around there was some kind of festival going on. Music, dancing, people selling things.. They also had this huge water show like in Las Vegas. We made it to the pagoda and it was beautiful! We hiked a billion stairs to get to the top, but we made it! Haha
After all the fun outside we got back to their home and they told us we had to be up by 6 the next morning. Bleh!!! I am not a morning person at all. They told us we were going to hike a mountain but we didn't know which one. Of course we went to bed early on the worlds hardest bed. The beds here are all hard as rock and it's awful! But this one was even worse. So clearly I didn't sleep at all.
6 a.m. rolls around and we are up ready to go! We start driving towards the exact same mountain we hiked last weekend with the crazy big statue. But instead of stopping at the bottom, we drove all the way to the top! We stopped to eat some breakfast and ohhhhhhh my goodness it was absolutely delicious! Best sweet/watery soup stuff I have had in the morning yet!! I wish there was a way to describe the goodness to you guys.
After breakfast we started hiking down the mountain and came to a spot called Sky Lake. Breath taking. The cool morning air made it all that much better. We then made the hike down and it was the cutest thing ever; once we started walking, Sam ran up and grabbed my hand! He basically held my hand down the entire mountain and it melted my heart. Made me really homesick and I missed my nephews like crazy:( We had some fun singing and laughing on the way down and made it to the big Lao Tzu statue.
Some time went by of sitting and people watching then we went to a few museums. They talked a lot about the history of the culture, and about Taiwan. Sounds super boring but I enjoyed myself! Lunch time rolled around and we went to a Thai restaurant. And guess what... More seafood!! There were a lot of vegetables though that made up for it. For all of you who love curry.. Honestly the best curry I have ever tasted!! I was dying at how good it was! I was in seventh heaven for sure.
Random thought... Sooo basically everyone in China all drive super nice cars. Audi's, Range Rover's, Mercedes Jaguars.. Before we left I look over and saw this really nice Mercedes parked in a dark little place and there was this freaking nice white car next to it. As I walked up, it was like in a movie. All of those little lights turned on one by one. Yup, it was a Maserati. These people are nuts when it comes to their cars.
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