DUDE!

We have been having a ton of fun lately.

We got back from the lodge and had Christmas, so I have not blogged in a few days. Sorry Julia, chillax.

Our Christmas was great. We had a slow morning, we opened our gifts. I got wonderful gifts from my family, and from Tanner's family. We ate a lot of candy.
We tried to go to Pizza Hut for a casual dinner. But here it's a really nice restaurant. They had a price fix menu. So we had a five course western dinner at Pizza Hut. The pizza was actually not that great. But the rest of dinner was okay. It was nice, we got a huge corner booth to ourselves. This was even nicer because it was really crowded.

We didn't go see the Pandas after all. By the time we got out of bed and got downtown it was 1:00pm. So we walked JinLi street. It's a traditional style street with food and tourist stuff. Tanner bought us something that looked like dirt or grainy mud. It was sesame, red bean and rice flour, it was actually good.

We rested a day. I went to a class.

Yesterday we went to DuFu's thatched cottage. It's a little cottage, a famous poet retired from life and wrote poetry here. It's inside a great little park. It has some wetlands and a pond. It's been really cold lately.
We also visited the biggest daoist temple in the city. It was also having construction done. I think most of the tourist places in the city are being worked on now, since there aren't any tourists in the city right now.
The temple was nice. The deities are a story tall, I forgot how big they were, Tanner was impressed. He has worked on some blog entries, but we are having a hard time finding time to get into Roberts and get online.

Econo-box cars

I read Tanner's issue of Popular Mechanics, that was pretty cool. I really like learning things I have never had a chance to learn about. Like cars.

Um.

We added up all the money we have spent, and in the end, it looks like our three week vacation is going to cost $500. That is everything, lodging, food and travel. I love the exchange rate. I love Tanner for spending his $1,000 savings for the plane ticket.

We have a great story about a bar, I will post it another day.

We're distracted, I have archeology class soon. Bye!