Wednesday, September 3, 2008

The past two days

After a decent nights rest, I woke up at 4 a.m. yesterday and took a shower (did I mention how awesome the showers here are?) We went to three different places to do paperwork (it didn't take that long), and then they took us to Walmart so we could get some supplies for the babies. I'll never look at Walmarts back home the same way again. Our Walmarts back home are practically deserted, even on their busiest days, compared to what its like here. You can barely take two steps without bumping into someone. It was insane. In fact, I'm going to stop talking about it because I don't like thinking about it... *shudders*

We stopped at the KFC inside Walmart, and it was delicious (even though it took 30 minutes to get our food). I can't wait to eat real food back home.

After that, we were done for the day. It was nice. I took a three hour nap, woke up for a couple hours, and then went to sleep for the night and woke up at 6 this morning. Even with all that sleep I'm still pretty tired. It will be nice once I'm back home to get into a normal sleeping routine.

This morning we didn't have to leave the hotel until 10, so we enjoyed the hotel's continental breakfast. Then we went to the Tengweng Pavillion, which was awesome. Instead of describing it, you can just see the pictures.

We're in for the night again, which will be nice. We're ordeirng Pizza Hut tonight (which will hopefully be better than the Pizza Hut in Beijing), but other than that, it's just relaxing. Tomorrow we get to visit a rural farming village, I can't wait to see that.

Isabella is doing great, and so is everyone else. There really isn't a whole lot left to say as these past two days have been slow paced. My sister just handed me a piece of paper that said "Gugu doof", so I guess that's something. I'll update again tonight if anything exciting happens, otherwise it will be tomorrow.


I bet this is prettier than anything you've seen today

This is from a performance done inside the Pavillion. When these dancers came out, Eliana turned to mom and said "They're skimpy"

I have the best sisters in the world

Everyone loves me, what can I say?

Ana helping feed Isabella
Tengweng Pavillion. It was built by some ruler as a vacation spot.
Me taming a stone elephant. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. You must have the magic touch, or else you're in for a trampling.
Ana riding a wild steed of stone
Is that a picture of Bill Clinton? Well, it depends on what the word "is" is.

Pretty
My two awesome sisters
Wally's World, Oriental Style
Shopping is serious business
My jokes are just really funny, I guess.

A soldier training ground as seen from the window in our hotel. Okay, so it's actually a middle school. But that's not as interesting.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Nicholas,
Your photos & captions and posts are entertaining! Maybe your calling is to be a travel writer - that is, a comedic travel writer!
Love,
Aunt Marge, Uncle Garry and Ben

Anonymous said...

Nick, KFC and Pizza Hut??? You're in a different country and you're eating pizza and chicken. Step out of the comfort zone. Eat some of those chicken feet at breakfast. :)

PS: The pic of Ana (Word Up, China) is my favorite.

Dan

Kim, Rachel, and Emily said...

Hi Nicholas - I love the captions on your pictures !! Too funny !! Do you want a chocolate pie when you get home ? I read the plea for home made food. :) Keep up the awesome blogging. I love it !!
Aunt Minow
PS - what do you think Isabella will call me since you and Ana both came up witha different name for me? ha ha ha