Hello Friends and Family,
We have had a great time the last couple of days just enjoying daily life and continuing to develop relationships with the great people that are here. Yesterday we got to spend more time with our 'pizza hut friends', Americans, living here with a 3 year old son and 10 month old daughter. Kealy went for a walk with Tiffany and I got to stay and play X-Box with Brent. After a little Madden and Ghost Recon (video games) we all went to a Japanese restaurant! We laughed that we were eating Japanese food in China, since they are pretty similar, but it was quite good and we particulary enjoyed the fried rice. Today was a great Saturday to sleep in and the weather was nice and cool (low 70s). We went for a nice walk and lunch at KFC! Then, after lunch, for a total of $3 American money, we each got a 45 minute hair wash and massage and Ryan got a haircut and Kealy her hair styled. It is such a great relaxing and fun thing to do and so inexpensive also. We laughed and giggled for the whole hour as we enjoyed and relaxed.
This is Kealy buying one of our favorite snacks, watermelon from Hainan Island.
After our wonderful massage we walked around the block and I found some sandals that barely fit me enough to wear around the house. We also spotted some cute kids and they followed us for a while and we bought some ice cream for them and they thought that was pretty cool.
Tonight we were invited to dinner at the college to celebrate the birthday of one of the teachers from the Phillipines, Elaine! We felt so honored to be invited to her birthday dinner and she even cooked some food that they knew we would both have in common; deep fried shrimp, spaghetti and hawaiian chicken. All of it was delicious. Her husband Richard even brought out his guitar and sang us Filipino folk songs and we had a great time sitting on there porch and talking together.
After dinner we headed home and of course stopped by our favorite mini-store that we stop by each day for icecream, mentos, juice, and other snacks. They know us by name and the family that runs the store are really friendly, the guy even gave us some grapes today for free to snack on. One of the daughters has a one year old and she is trying to teach the child how to say 'aunt' and 'uncle' in English so she can call us that. Pretty fun. Talk to you soon.
Sincerely,
Ryan and Kealy Thorson
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