Jinhong and on

We met a couple of Americans, Jeremy and Andrew. We went out drinking with them that night. As we were trying to find club yes, we asked some drunk Chinese where it was. They were really friendly, as I have found all Chinese people to be, and invited us to go with them to a club. We were definitely not dressed for the place but we figured it would be an adventure.

They got us all a table and a case of Budweiser, warm, Brazilians would gasp at the temperature that they drink their beer at. They were really nice to treat us to drinks. We had a great time with them drinking and dancing and posing for many pictures!

****Must interrupt! In the park, not only was everyone staring at me, but some Chinese guys asked to take their picture with Wade and I. We felt like one of the attractions! We were definitely the only westerners there and boy did we stand out!

back to the night out... they were playing this game with these girls. It was about 10 of us and we played paper, rock, scissors... elimination so the last (loser) had to go up on the platform and dance. It was pretty entertaining! A lot of the girls giggled over Wade, if they only knew they didn't stand a chance (gay); he made me pretend I was his girlfriend... it was pretty funny especially as he tried to flirt with some of the guys. They were all clueless. Chinese men are actually very affectionate with each other, they hugged a lot!

We got some street meat after the bar... mmmm... they had chicken hearts! The potato skewers are also a note worthy mention!

The next day was painful- headache galore! Wade and I found a pool to go to- one that we almost got kicked out of. We went to a really nice hotel and just walked to their pool and set up shop. Someone came over and asked us if we stayed there. Wade pretended not to speak Chinese and played dumb. The guard had him write our room number in a book- Wade glanced at the other entries and thought he wrote an actual one down. It turns out they didn't have that room number as the employee pointed out after making a phone call. Wade then proceeded to change the number, again pretending not to speak Chinese. As the employee picked up the phone again, Wade came back to me and frantically had me pick up my stuff to flee the scene!

We made it downstairs and decided to just ask the front desk if we could use their pool. It was that easy- we could for 15 yuan each. We felt pretty stupid especially when Wade had to explain the scenario and the big lie we told to the manager bringing us up there. Thankfully she had a great sense of humor about it. We could not stop laughing. The employee was so confused!

That night we met up with Andrew and Jeremy for dinner. We met a Chinese woman, from the north at the Mekong Cafe. She asked us if she could trek with us as we were planning on doing. It was great to have her as she connected us with a great tour guide, offered a lot of insight on the tea industry and drove our cost down for our three day trek!