We awoke today to find that it was raining outside. The amazing fact of China is that they are really terrible at predicting the weather here. If you think they are bad back home, you have no idea. Dustin joked they can only tell you what it is currently happening with any accuracy. Thankfully, we packed everyone’s raincoats, and with an adventuresome spirit we set out in the rain. (This of course got many looks throughout the day as we did not use umbrellas (we had hoods on our coats) and this to the Chinese is quite bizarre behavior. This was only heightened by the fact that we were in shorts and many whispered, I am sure, how we were committing child abuse for not putting them in pants—yet it was at least 75-80 degrees out.
Anyway, we headed out to the other side of the lake to walk this area. It is more mountainous on this side and is further from the city buildings. We enjoyed walking around a pond that had a lot of different goldfish. Danny loves fish, so he really enjoyed this section. We of course ran into more crowds and tried our best to pick the pathways that they were not walking down. There was one pathway in which we were unable to avoid the crowd. There had to be at least 80 to 150 people all bunched together. I got Josh through it as quickly as I could and waited for Dustin and Danny who stayed behind to look at some of the fish.
After the fish pond, we walked further up and found another scenic area. We walked in this area for a while and then headed for lunch. After lunch we headed back to the hotel and changed and Tom picked us up.
Overall, it was a great relaxing couple of days and we are excited that we found a place that we can go back to and feel like we have gotten out of the city and destress for our lives here in China.
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