First vacation: Chinese Hawaii {Sanya}
day one:
We stood in the rain at the bus stop with all our stuff, took that bus to the bus station where we got on a sleeper bus. Ohhh the sleeper bus! We thought it would be like Hogwarts... it's not. So I spent twelve hours "sleeping" on a two foot wide leather bed on the top bunk of the middle column with drop offs on each side. As if we weren't already packed enough, they then laid out mats for people to sleep in the isles! So picture us innocent white girls sleeping on a bus literally piled with angry Asians.
This was my face the entire time.
When we FINALLY got off the sleeper bus we then took another bus to another bus that drove extremely slowly to our next destination- SANYA!
day two:
We hit the beach. And it was lovely :)
{beer bottle not mine}
The people watching was p-r-i-m-e but some people just shouldn't wear bikinis
This kid is literally my hero
That night we were walking along the beach and could hear a band playing American music. As we got closer I saw a dance floor in front of the band but nobody was dancing so... you can probably guess what happened next. Before you know it we were swarmed with middle-aged, drunk Asian men who LOVED dancing with us and wouldn't let us leave. It was hilarious but we got out of there as soon as things got little weird, which they definitely did.
day three:
Somehow I talked myself in to getting a fish pedicure! Never doing that again!! I literally paid someone to put my feet in a nasty fish tank where a million other feet have been and get the dead skin sucked off my feet. I didn't last very long but it was a good laugh and now I can say that I've done it. I spent the rest of the day traumatized.
We discovered a restaurant right by our hostel that not only served American food, but DANG GOOD American food! It was truly a gift from Heaven. There were also tons of fruit stands selling huge manogs- oh how I love those mangos! One stand would blend up fresh fruit and turn it into an ice cream/slushy concoction that was to die for. I miss it already :(
We did some bartering and hung out with our hostel owner (who was AWESOME by the way) and played cards as I ate my delicious mango :)
day four:
We said a sad goodbye to Sanya after a few final hours at the beach and took a bus to the train station. As we always do at train and bus stations, we got our KFC ice cream and waited to board. The train was 14 hours through the night and might have been even more miserable than the sleeper bus. However, we did make a few friends and even taught one guy, Simon, some english. After what seemed like the longest night of my life we finally got off the train and took the metro to another train station! Luckily this train was only 45 minutes and it was very nice. But I'm not done yet, we then got off that train to get on a bus. Took that bus to the fruit market where we had to get off and transfer to yet another bus before we finally made it home.
In case you lost count that's seven buses, one metro, and two trains just to get to and from Sanya. It was worth it though!
ONE LAST THING!
{And my parents will appreciate this}
On Saturday before we left we had to go to this stupid Bond banquet thing and I swear on my life I had every intention of trying the shrimp they served! It was a gross shrimp too that had eye balls and legs still attached. I pulled off the legs and the shell and prepared myself to take a bite. Unfortunately, my chopstick skills aren't quite up to par yet and as I was dipping the shrimp into the sauce I dropped it! So I took that as a sign that I wasn't supposed to eat it. But I was going to and that's all that matters! Here's proof:
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