Adventures of being adopted into a Chinese Family!

I had the privilege of being invited by one of our favorite teachers from our school to go to a barbeque. After some of the accomodations were changed last minute, we went to a fellow teachers apartment. Dinah, our favorite teacher who is always very sweet to us and very excited about working on her english, took us, along with her son Chucky, to the apartment. The husband picked us up and we found out that he loved Kareoke! Everyone in China does, but little did we know that he had a huge system in his apartment.

He was nice enough to get some american songs, such as Celine Dion, Brittany Spears, and really old school loves songs so that we could sing them. We werent sure what to expect but as soon as we got there we knew it would be a great time!

Dinah is in the purple, Chucky in the orange, April (she let me give her a new english name :D) in the black, and Mrs. Zho in the grey.
We had a great time play fighting. I let Chucky beat me up pretty good! I had no chance against the little guy and his amazing moves!

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I ate sooooo much food. My belly was sticking out. So I pretended i was pregnant and they thought it was hilarious. But yet they kept feeding me! I dont think i had had that much meat with out a lot of fat, the whole time ive been in China!

This is our 2 wonderful hosts! Neither of them spoke english. Mr. Zho could understand a little from all of the american war movies he's seen. Mrs. Zho was an amazing cook! She was the sweetest lady and it felt like being home. By the end of the night we were calling Them mama and babba

They lived on the top floor. It was pooring rain. We had the BBQ on the patio part that was coverd and the city lights were hidden by the buildings accross from us.

MEAT!!! You have no idea how good this looks to a carnivour american girl who has only eatin meat the size of her thumb!

We kareoke'd it up baby! even though we sounded horrible they absolutely loved it! Celine Dion My Heart Will Go ON!!!!!

Begger woman with a child. None of us could say no to her.

Creepy funny almost cute asian that we would wake up to him staring at us! He also had a tattoo of the Beijing Olympics.

This is how comfy it is. I was actually sitting right next to Brad but moved because some seats became open after about 7 in the morning. Mind you, we had left around 6 in the evening the day prior.

Two of the Chinese guys that let me play their the guitars the night before under a bridge.

Beautiful Sun sighting behind chinese architecture. Ilove this picture!

This is the face I made because the guitar sounded out of tune.

So I traded guitars!! Ha ha. I apologized to the guy who had given me his guitar and told that it was very pretty. He just looked at me like I was speaking english to a chinese man! I wonder why?

Just chillin' on the South Great Wall. The view from up there was amazing!

We found a store dedicated to ice cream on a stick! This is my guilty look, this was my second one... :D

Beautiful landscape from up on the Great wall. I counted the steps coming down on just one section, I got to about 635 steps.

After we headed up to get into the actual wall, we looked down and three little boys has decided it would be a grand ol' time to take a nakey time bath in the little creek next to a busy road. We were just looking at the beautiful landscape and out of the corner of my eye I see little nakey bums running around!

This is the entrance to get up to the great wall and the checkerboard. It was quite a journey just to get up there.

Adorable little small village boys we saw after our beautiful hike.

We went on a beautiful hike. Many different waterfalls, pools, and a bridge hooked to the side of a mountain over a huge water fall.

The children from this little village were so cute. This little man on the right, he had two other little friends and they were all smoking!

This girl was making head wreaths to sell by a big yellow meadow. She was a very sweet quiet little girl.









Breakfast Dumplings!! We called them "dumps" and

"Noodies!" (noodles)

This is a boy, by the way, and please take notice of the slit down the back. It also ran up through the front as well. China's children potty train a lot sooner than american children.































I fell in love with the amount of abstract art I could find there.

These are all at our cute little guesthouse we stayed at for $4.00 a night each person. Sweetest place ever. I was called he Bingo Cafe. It was all hippie style and way chill. I loved it!

View outside our window.

Beautiful 2000 year old phoenix city! Our guesthouse is just in the far left corner just outside the picure.

I think the biggest thing about this trip was how long we had to travel. We went on a two hour bus ride, hopped on a train for 16 hours, got in a taxi, got on another bus for another 2 hours, and then quite a bit of walking involved. It was pretty cool. I also did not shower the entire time. It was freezing at night and hot during the day.