Drifting, Lessons learned, lazy blog

Sunday, got up at six, got breakfast, it was aight, and we went to the drifting. Well let’s just say that the drifting was not what I was told. We got on these rafts made out of bamboo poles, and had these chairs made out of bamboo and we floated down this shallow river with a guy with a pole guiding the boat. The river was pretty slow, we had a couple of spots were it could slightly fast, but nothing to get excited about. The most fun I had was having a water gun fight with a couple of little kids on other boats. They had these small super soaker kind and I had this bamboo syringe. Theirs was more accurate but not hat much range and mine the exact opposite. Me 2 kids 0. Good times had by all. So it got real hot real soon and afterwards we went waxberry picking. Waxberries are these giant raspberry looking things that taste like a citrus strawberry. A sweeter grapefruit. They grow on these small trees. We had about a half hour to eat as much as we could and if we wanted to take any back, we would have to pay. The price was bargained for heavily, I even got a video of it. In the end it was 12 RMB/kilo. Not bad. And after that we had lunch and took the long ride back. Stopped at a market which was with all sorts of food and knick knacks. Some good stuff, some not so good stuff. Ryan and Jon tried some silk worm cocoons, and according to their reaction, they tasted as good as they sound.

Well the details of the rest of the trip was a hot buss ride and me trying to sleep without trying to break my neck and playing a fake gun fight game with a kid on the bus. I got him a little toy truck at one of the rest stops, and his mom told him to say " thank you very much" in english. Oh man he came up to me and said it (he's like maybe 6 years old at best) and immediately just jumped into his mom's lap face first because he was so embarrassed. Cute as a button.

Lessons Learned: do not eat silkworm cocoons. drifting is over rated, and waxberries are delicioius but you can't eat too much.