Exotic Fruit Hunt!

Well first, I know we are horrible at updating our blog and finding the time to write what the pictures actually mean when we finally do put them up. Wow talk about run on sentence. Oh well its too late to go back and fix it haha. So moving onto our adventures. Our first adventure began here with a "chinese exotic fruit hunt". Honestly it wasnt much of a "hunt" more than it was laughing with the funnest chinese families you will ever meet. Calvin (the boy in the blue shirt) became our best peng yuo (friend in chinese. Its a common term we use for all the chinese taxi drivers that get us lost.) It was his family and friends that we tagged along with. We started the early morning off on the side of the highway in a smoking van. Call it the Young family curse but everything we touch seems to break down...my poor peng yuo's must suffer the consequences of being friends with me...a young. Every few miles we would hear the engine shut off and putt to the side of the road. It made for great entertainment when all the boys kept yelling bad car in chinese. That became a famous line the remainer of the trip. Needless to say our van just needed a warm up run cause in time it got us to our destinations. The first half of the drive was beautiful until London (our roommate) yelled out...Really, can you see the size of that spider? It's the size of my head!" We laughed thinking we were pass the danger...weren't we wrong. Try this experiment, get a mirror and look at the size of your head. Now picture a spider that size. Now picture my friendly spiders on steroids to the left of you, to the right of you, above you, and infront you, just staring at you in the middle of thier huge delicate webs. Now you know what we experienced. The chinese advice walk in the middle of the mini trail and look forward so you dont accidentally run into a web. Nice advice huh? Calvin walked around with his stick claiming they would only jump if they sensed movement on their web. So what do little boys do...they provoke the man eating insects. So thats what kelc and I are pointing at if your wondering.

Happily we survived our treck through the jungle hoping to have a good lunch. This is where the food pictures come into play. You know what your eating isnt normal when the boys, that speak fairly good english, need a translation book to even give you an idea of what it on the plate infront of you. We ate wild bore, goose, a huge fish that they decided to rip its head off infront of us, lots of other random things that they couldnt find the name of, and bite size gold fish, not the crunchy chedder kind...these ones literally were a snack that smiles back, until you bit their heads off. Yep we ate a mini fish eyes an all. Kelc got it in her mouth but couldn't couldnt find it in her to bite down.

In the end we made it home safe with new great friendships and new eyes to how wonderful this culture and these people really are. There is no words to describe the kindness we recieved from these small families. We grew to love them within the first few hours we met them. When they dropped us off at the end of the day Calvin gave us each a hug and said "we are friends now. We like having new friends." It was an experience that we will all hold forever in our thoughts as our great beginning to the adventures we still had ahead of us. Nothing in China is ever what you expect which is half the fun in the adventure.