Pictures From China

Pictures from China

Bi Bim Bop

So on Thursday we got into a taxi that took us to the airport. We followed the crowd, and before we knew it we were through security, on a plane, and then landing in Korea! Good thing we had actually planned this safari, or we could've been in a big mess.

We voted that Korean food is our favorite asian food!! When we got to the Incheon Airport in S. Korea, my cousin took us to eat Bi Bim Bop. It was a yummy rice, beef, and vegetable dish. Lance also really liked these fat noodles that were served with it....he is convinced they are noodles, but I think they are rice cakes.

We rode a bus all the way from Seoul down to Jinhae...basically meaning we drove across the entire country (north to south) in 4 1/2 hours. It was pretty neat to see the country side. We saw a lot of rice paddies. I was dreading the bus ride, but it ended up being pretty nice because the seats on the bus were big, comfortable, and had lots of leg room.

(Lance is concerned because he hasn't pooed in 3 days.)

We are now staying at my grandma's apartment. My dad and brother flew in from Utah last night. It is fun to see my family and to introduce Lance to my Korean relatives. My grandma thinks Lance is too skinny...so she's working on fattening him up.

Eeeekk!!!

My heart is beating so fast right now. Lance just did the HIGH DIVE in the show for the first time tonight! It was AWESOME! I think I was more nervous than he was! I got a video of him, which I'm proud of, because my hands were shaking so badly. Yay Lance! I'm proud of you! And thanks for landing in the water!

Mystery Meat

Lance and I keep buying pork from the grocery store... the first time yes, it was pork. The second time....no it was lamb meat. And this last time? Lance thinks its DOG meat! Sick. What's worse? We usually don't figure out it's NOT pork until after the first bite.

Do a flip

Alrighty, so Samantha and I are wandering around this sports mall when we run into their swimming section. The nice little Chinese worker lady comes over to talk to us we do the usual "Ni Hao. . . (alot of Chinese I don't understand) . . . then they turn to Samantha and repeat it all over again cuz She'll understand it :s . . . then comes the Oh I'm an American. a few giggles from the worker girl. Then comes the Chinese I can understand. How Long have you been in China? . . . You're girlfriend is so pretty . . . Your Wife? . . . You are so young to be married . . ."
Ok, now to business. We found where they had their Speedos and the girl tells me that they are 50% off. So Speedos are $4 bucks. Ha! It was hilarious, I bought every Speedo they had in my size. The girl is just giggling the whole time as I pull one after another off the hanger that I found in my size. So I now will never have to purchase another speedo for as long as I live (or at least untill my gutt is too big to fit into them any more).
We found Samantha the cutest pair of shoes too that she said she refuses to wear while in China cuz they are way to cute to get buggered up here in China before anyone can see her sporting them. So she has sealed the shoe box and won't be wearing them till we get home. Ha!
Ok so after my Speedo binge we head back cuz I have a practice for the circus. At the end of the practice I told Brian (our dive Captain) that I wanted to warm up a high dive. So, after promissing him that I wouldn't get dead or fly out of the pool he said ok. We got Sam all hooked up with the video camera so just incase I did die she could submit the sweet footage of my death to America's Funniest Home Videos so she could win their $10,000 dollar prize (Ha!)
Unfortunately for Sam my high dive was a success so she won't be earning the $10,000 dollar reward for sending in the hilarious video of me missing the pool.

That night before the Show Samantha and I felt like eating mexican and we wanted to go Authentic so we were gonna make our own tortillas. Ha, they were great, they turned out to be like Squashed, cooked Play-dough pan cakes. We thought they were absolutelly delicious but whatever they were they weren't quite tortillas but we felt pretty dang proud of our Mexican skills.
We ended up just crumpeling the wanna be tortillas over the chicken and salsa and eating it like a salad because we couldn't wrap the chicken and salsa up with them, our little play-dough tortillas just fell apart when we tried to wrap every thing up. But it was good so No Complaints. We are planing on making them again very soon :)

Neverland

Hello all you people working "real" jobs. Samantha and I are having ourselves a grand time here in Neverland. Just the other day we rented us a two-seater bicycle with silly speeds and went for a ride through this sweet bike park. We were dodging Chinese people left and right cuz its summer time so everybody has August off before they have to get back into school. It was great! We saw a snake during our biking adventure and crazy neon spiders and lilly pads the size of a bed.
We felt pretty proud of ourselves because we were the only ones who peddled all the way to the top of this huge hill. Everyone else was pushing their bikes up it. As soon as we got to the top I told Samantha that we wore the brakes out going up that huge hill so now we had none. Ha! We went flying down the hill. I took my feet off the peddles and just stuck them out the whole way down, I probably looked like some character out of Mary Poppins.
The entire ride down I was singing the Theme Song of the Wicked Witch of the West as we zipped by all these Chinese dudes who would just stop and stare and say "Hey look! A WHITE guy" ha!
The whole way Samantha is just yelling at me, "slow down! Not so fast! Lance!!! No! Slow down!" (we really weren't even going that fast, on these dinky little rusted up two-seaters our top speed was about as fast as a butterfly, Sam just thought we were going fast cuz I had my feet off the peddles :) ) Ha!