Living in Asia

Several weekends ago we decided to pack our bags and head out to the beach. Uhm? Bad idea, if you want to enjoy yourself and lay out in the sun and possibly see the water while you're there..... China is not the place to go. It's insane how many people are at the beach. It doesn't matter what beach it is, odds are, it's going to be packed. There isn't enough room for you to set your stuff down, and the crazier part is that people camp out at the beach, with tents and everything, taking up even more space! aahh!

We were there for 15 minutes no joke, looking around for a spot. But we ended up leaving to this other place that might have been better..... but oh were we wrong. This other place wouldn't even let us in it was so packed.

You definitely have to lower your standards a little bit in China. Don't expect paradise when it comes down to their beaches.

If you look closely you can see the tents.

No, it's not your eyes fooling you, those are all people.

No room to enjoy the water.

Crazy right?

We were invited to a Chinese Cultural Event and had the opportunity to experience some "real" Chinese culture. They had things like paper cutting, drawing Chinese calligraphy, tea tastings and shows.

Arturo made what you see in the picture above... many Chinese people have them in their homes or business, it symbolizes money or riches.

We thought these guys were really cool looking, not sure what they represented though.

So we "tried" to draw some Chinese calligraphy, that was a challenge, it's definitely harder than it looks. They taught us how to draw our Chinese names, Arturo laughed because he said his looks like a kid drew it. :)