Peter, Benxi and Birthdays

That's me, 2nd from the right. In case you weren't sure what i look like anymore! :) From left to right it goes: Zhou Xi, Tian Tian, Li Rui and Dai Na! Or in English: Josie, Thyra, me, Nawwal!

That's us in beautiful Benxi. It was so great to get away from a city to this!!! I breathed in some fresh air, had some laughs, scrap that... many laughs and now i'm fully refreshed. So, the breakdown of the weekend:

Friday: depart at 7.30am!!!!! 5 hours on a bus. Then white water rafting till dinner! Lovely! Got very wet, and subsequently very cold! Then dinner and to end...Kareoke! We reted out the kareoke room in the Hotel we stayed in and had some drinks and cheesy pop music! Good fun.

Saturday: We started at this awful museum. Which, i might add, had no gift shop!!!! They did however have a comment book, so we righted this wrong by recommending they build one. It wouldn't suprise me if they did so withing the month. They'll do anything for foreigners.

Anyway, then we climbed a mountain. yep. 999 steps later i reached the top and had an icecream. The picture here was taken at the top, so as you can see, it was worth it! We then took a boat to a Buddhist island thing. Just devoted to monks/statues and other stuff. We met a dog which we named Happy there. That was the best part!

Then dinner. Yummy. Then we thought we'd chillax in the hotel Sauna. Reckon! No! Oh no! So, a group of us go, boys and girls. We arrive pay our £1.50 and we're seperated into genders. Okay, so we'll have a strictly girly sauna, fine. Oh no!!!! We're then taken to a locker room, told to get naked and enter the next room. They open the door to the next room and 'hello lots of naked chinese ladies showering'. that was it. A public shower. So, still in bikini's, we're like, 'sorry, bye bye' to the employee and leave. The guys however are gone for like an hour. Why? Because they had a sauna! Not just that, but a hot tub and these very funky face on shower things! Albeit they had to be naked but that seems to have helped their bonding.

At least we girls got our £1.5o back! :D

Sunday: This was the dave of the cave. So stunning! I've uploaded a whole album on facebook dedicated to just that! Got a bit lost with Eric. Well you shouldn't trust a Chinese guy whose never been there before really. So, we're lost, in a huge cave, alone. Gutted. But we retraced a bit a found some others form the group eventually! Nothing lost. Except maybe half an hour! So, i come out of the cave, zip wire 400 metres across a river and back onto the coach. Shattered.

It was a good weekend.

On a somber note, Peter Scott passed away last weekend. Hence some silence form me on my blog. But he's no longer suffering, whichh is a blessing. Apparently the funeral went really smoothly and it sounds really touching. I think he would've been proud of everyone who contributed to it. He was very supportive of my journey in China though so I will have a good time and do my job, because he would've wanted that.

Thyra's birthday was Monday. I bought her a watch as her main pressie. Then lots of little things to go with it. She got a hilairious array of pressies! We went to this gorgeous Swiss restaurant for dinner. Everyone came which was great. had like 14 of us! I also had my first, and probably only steak in China! And it was worth the money! Yum-my!

This Friday evening we're having another BBQ in the park so i'm looking forward to relaxing there and playing some hacky sack and footie and stuff. Then Saturday we're making our 2nd appearance at Armani. the new club in town. It's like a performance untill 12, then it's turns into your standard club. It's Thyra's proper birthday night so we're dressing like gangsta's! We've all got bling baseball caps and some chavvy clothes and some bling and we'll rave it up for her! I'll definately get some photos taken! Fear not!

Well, i'm going to end it because i know i've taken up so much of your time already. Love you all muchly! Take care!

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