life is good

so last post i was trying to describe my weekend, but i couldn’t for the life of me remember saturday, so i just talked about sunday’s glacier/volcano. but i’ve looked at some photos, and it turns out we did a lot on saturday.

one of those activities included being on a boat in a dark loud thunderstorm. it looked like armageddon was on its way while we were walking through this place that has cold springs of water which has really high iron content and is naturally carbonated and tastes like you’re drinking metal bars and we stop at the water where there are two boats
waiting. we’re not surprised, and since inner mongolia’s lightning storm boating experience we weren’t really that scared either b/c not much could top that one.

so we hop on the boats and armageddon jr arrives and i have a video of the whole extravaganza. if i can figure out how to post a photo on here of the sky i’ll do that.

and then today was great. i just got back from throwing the flying bird. (frisbee). i loooove frisbee. it was 6 on 6 and another friend showed up towards the end so the other team got her and we asked a member of the audience if he wanted to play. (there’s always an audience).

after declining politely we dragged him onto the field and he was absolutely amazing. ultimate frisbee’s not a common game in china, but after a 5 minute explanation he was making goals and catches all over the place.

anyway that made my day as throwing the flying bird always does. we have a rematch next week.

afterward we went for food. by ‘food’ i mean ‘beer and french fries’, but i actually just got a plate of tofu and watermelon juice. which sounds awesome, but eating here actually sucks. only in china can a diet of tofu and broccoli be this bad for your health. you don’t stand a chance against the msg and oil.

oh - and the restaurant/chef mishap from yesterday carried on. tonight w/ the tofu they told me not to pay again
(i forgot my card anyway so a friend paid) and the woman even said it was ‘bu hao yisi’ which sort of means embarrassing. i said i was ‘bu hao yisi’ and i think we forgot the whole thing. we got 3 dishes tonight - all of which we ordered.

okok i’m off for real.

ps - two weeks ago i saw oodles of siberian tigers. also ligers. they actually exist. it’s not just in napoleon dynamite. 20 of them do anyway. for $5 i got to play with a baby siberian tiger. which shouldn’t be allowed for so many reasons. oh china.