Yangshou day 1
What a day!! This morning after teaching we headed out for our first vacation!! We haven't been able to get out and explore a ton because we have been really busy with our students and teaching. We packed our backpacks and headed to Yangshou! We took a motor taxi, bus, fast train, other fast train, tour bus and city bus to get here but the journey was fun! They told us that the mountains here look like Dr. Suess mountains but I didn't really believe it until I saw it today with my own eyes, the mountains are so squiggly and beautiful!! During the train ride a lot of it looked like my first area of my mission in Santa Lucia Honduras, so it was bringing back the feels.
So we finally got here and checked into our hostel, the people are so so nice here and they speak English. I wish I could show you or reactions when we found out we get to sleep in real beds and have actual toilets, it's a miracle! We headed to dinner at this random restaurant and it turned out to be so yummy, it actually tasted like how we imagined Chinese food to taste like haha so good! Then we came back to the hostel and played card games while we planned the next day. After that we headed to west street to walk around. It's pretty much like Disneyland in China but with mostly adults and a lot more restaurants. It was so fun to walk around and window shop and people watch! There were people playing music on the street and it was just an open environment.
The best part of the night was stopping by a guy playing a bongo drum in a store, he turned on a song and we danced and sang and got a crowd of people to film us, it was the most fun we have had this entire trip! The owners name is Sodom and I can tell we are going to be besties this weekend. Another highlight was getting a real mcflurry here, but it was in a much cuter cup. This trip is already off to an amazing start!!!
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