Adams and I's time is winding down here in Weifang. We only have two more weeks of teaching before we head out to travel southern China. I am excited and nervous for our trip. We won't stay in a hotel for more than one night, and the 10 days that we will be traveling China we have 6 flights. This year we will or have been on an airplane on Thanksgiving, our Anniversary, and Christmas. But Christmas day we fly to Thailand where we will lay on the beach for 10 days. I am excited to get some color to my pale skin and relax! Adam will miss the first day of classes because we will be in flight on our way home!
We were able to go to Korea and visit Yong, a foreign exchange students of Thomas's, lst weekend. It was cool because Adam hung out a lot with them so they had many memories together. One memory was about Yong while he was in Blackfoot, he wanted to drive and so as he was backing the car out of Thomas's garage he accidently took out some of the garage wall, and he went into the house and told Thomas, I have big problem. We laughed about that on our way to his house from the airport. This trip had a lot of irony, because later that day we walked from Yongs house to get his parents car from the auto shop. Yong went in and we were just waiting on the sidewalk when we hear this horrible crunch. Yong was backing up and had hit a small round cement barrier. It ripped a part of the front bumper off. It was sad, but so funny. Then another ironic thing that happened was that before we went to Korea Adam and I were talking about the foods that we were craving. Adam wanted a costco hot dog with onions on it. Well when we got to Korea we found out that Korea actually has a Costco! We had so much fun walking around Costco and looking at all the food that they had, and so of course we had to eat at Costco! We ordered everything that was on the menu! Hot dogs, salad, pizza, chicken bake, and icecream! It was so good. We had a great time with Yong and his family. They were so nice to let us stay at their house and take them around Seoul. We went to the Temple. I love the Temple. It was so wonderful to be able to go. We also went to the Korean Folk Village, that was really fun and interesting. Then one day we walked around Seoul and went shopping and ate at TGIF. We did eat at some great Korean restuaraunts. I love their style of eating. They sit on a heated floor and eat on little tables. We all loved those heated floors! We went to church and had lunch at Yongs place. His mom had made a great lunch with a some American food and some Korean food. We had a great time. I don't think I realized how under developed China is, until I went to Korea. The last ironic thing that happened was the last leg of our trip. We got off the plane in Qingdao airport and as we were walking out we decided that instead of waiting two hours for the bus to Weifang we would take a 45 minute taxi to the train station and get a train to Weifang. There are a lot of taxi drivers in the airport and one guy said he could take us all the way to Weifang for 300RMB. That is what it would cost us any other way and this way would be faster (almost 2 hours to get to Weifang). We were very happy! So we get on our way and we are talking about this trip and how nothing too exciting happened. Right after we said that our taxi driver pulled on to the side of the road before a toll booth and told us to wait for a minute. There were a few taxi drivers and so we didn't think anything of it until after 10 minutes we saw our taxi driver in the middle of the road waving down every car that passed. We laughed and laughed because we knew that we was trying to pawn us off. It was hilarous watching him run after the cars that passed. We did find a taxi that was going to Weifang but we would have had to pay more money and cram all four of us in the back seat. We decided to wait. Finally after about an hour the taxi driver found a "black taxi" van (illegal taxi's) that was going to Weifang that would take us. We were so happy! We basically paid that taxi driver to hitch hike for us. China is an experience. We made is back safely and am now trying to get motivated to start packing all our stuff up!
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