Adventures

More new adventures happened last week. The one crazy one for Lisa (and sadly I was without my camera) was when I got a foot massage and they put glass cups over a burning flame on a long stick onto my feet. I wisely suggested to one of our Chinese teachers that for my lesson she and I should get foot massages at the spa near our apartment complex, and she of course thought that would be fun. So I had to learn and use massage words. We got

80 minute foot massages and at the end the masseur lit a long stick wrapped in alcohol soaked cotton on fire, put it into a glass bulb shaped cup, blew it out and slammed the cup onto my foot, repeating the action about 20 times. I was totally scared but it didn't hurt, and God only knows what the point of that was. Didn't leave any marks either.

Mike and I had our first date night of summer Friday! After taking the kids to the opening party of the new Dolphin Bar at 6pm for free food with 50% of the 60 or so expats in Sanya, we took them home and had a sitter and then went back to Dolphin and onto a nightclub called MJ's. What a trip! I was totally out of practice drinking though and suffered the next morning.

By popular demand from the US, here you can see photos of our lame apartment. The walls are so very white and we just never have bought anything to put on them. The furniture is sparse and uncomfortable. And you can now see for yourself the bathroom and kitchen. Trying hard to cook again, but as our one working burner only works very occasionally, I give up. No oven, microwave, toaster, etc either. Just one sort of working burner.

We went to the beach once this week, Mike surfed one other day too, and I took the kids to the Mandarin Oriental hotel today on a scouting mission because that is where Jeanne & Chuck will stay when they come over to visit in August. Yesterday we took the kids to Mingzhu Guangchang, which is a shopping mall of sorts, and inside there is a kids play area a little bit like Jungle Island for those who know about these things. That was a big hit too.

Almost all the meals in Sanya have been very delicious and inexpensive, we've met more people recently (including a Chinese guy who went to ASU at the same time Mike did!) and we have not had any major tropical storms.