It has been a busy week with one thing or another. Was out to Shuswap to a friend's place for a birthday party. Its been quite a while since I was in a house party where I didn't know anybody. It was an appy pot luck and boy was the food good! It was a very high level of appetizers I tell ya! And the company was stellar. Ollie, the birthday girl and hostess is one of the nicest people you could meet. And she makes the best salsa in the whole world!
Wayne, her husband had made sourdough bread, from scratch! I brazenly asked if I could have some starter to try making it myself. He very very kindly gave me a jar of starter (actually his lovely daughter did) and all the many instructions. I tried making it yesterday and it was a colossal failure...to the point where I won't even post a pic here. It was fun and messy trying though! I think I will stick to english muffins from Costco. Thats what I was actually wanting to make eventually.
So, as you know I am now a temporary owner of a dog. He is a smart funny good companion. But....yesterday? Not so much.
The guys were here with heavy duty equipment and machinery to clean a tremendous amount of sand and dirt off the condo roadways. They stacked their coolers, coats, tool boxes etc. on the lawn just up from my condo.
Well I let Wrangler out for his mid day whiz. He always runs around the corner to the big grassy lawn area to a certain tree. I follow along with a dog bag on my hand, at the ready.
Off he goes at a hundred miles an hour, me trailing along behind. When I got around the corner, there was Wrangler, leg lifted, stream agoin', right onto the men's stuff!!! Holy crap!!! I hollered at him, and credit to him, he stopped mid stream and bounced off. Meanwhile, there is dog p all over their stuff. I almost died.
No one was around so I grabbed my stupid dog and hightailed it back home and hid for the rest of the day. I wasn't about to go find them and say, Umm, excuse me but my dog just pissed all over your lunch kits.
There. When I write it here and share the events with you peeps, I release it from my brain and don't think about it anymore. :)
I have posted the next batch of trip pics with explanations under. I do wish this stupid blogspot would post them in date order, or at least in the order I click them. So many stupid things in this world! TTYL
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| SO COMPLETELY OUT OF ORDER. THIS IS THE RICE TERRACES. SO BEAUTIFUL |
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| CLEARLY A BAD PIC. I MUST HAVE TAKEN THIS WITH MY CAMERA...WHICH I DISCOVERED ON THE LAST DAY OF THE TRIP THAT THE CAMERA HOLE GLASS WAS COMPLETELY DIRTY. THESE PEOPLE ARE DOING LAUNDRY IN THE YANGZEE RIVER AS THE BOAT FLOATS BY |
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| KATHY IS ABOUT TO SIT AT OUR TABLE AND I AM IN THE FOOD TROUGH LINE UP IN THE DINING ROOM ON THE BOAT |
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| THIS WAS A PARK WE WERE TAKEN TO. IT WAS CALLED ELEPHANT PARK, THE NEXT PIC WILL EXPLAIN WHY. WE HAD ENVISIONED GREEN EXPANSES, FLOWERS, LEAFY TREES. NO. CEMENT, A THOUSAND POSING CHINESE, AND STRANGE UNEXPLAINABLE WEIRD THINGS, LIKE THIS FORMATION. I EXPLAIN IT BELOW AS WELL |
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| THIS FORMATION IS WHY IT WAS CALLED ELEPHANT PARK. LIKE I SAID BEFORE, THESE PEOPLE WILL SEIZE ANYTHING TO MAKE A BUCK OUT OF IT |
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| SO THIS SEEMED ACTUALLY KIND OF AMAZING. I MEAN WHAT KIND OF TREE GROWS ROOTS AND TRUNKS LIKE THIS? RIGHT? YEAH WELL GUESS WHAT? IT IS CEMENT. NOT REAL. PUT THERE BY PEOPLE WITH STRANGE IDEAS OF WHAT WE MIGHT WANT IN A PARK |
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| WE VISITED A TEA PLANTATION...WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO BUY BUY BUY AT THE END OF IT. SEE THOSE MOUNTAIN FORMATIONS IN THE BACK? THERE ARE FORTY THOUSAND OF THEM IN THIS AREA! IF YOU HAVE BEEN TO THE AOU NEEDLE IN MAUI, WHERE THERE IS ONLY ONE, YOU CAN IMAGINE BEING IN THE MIDDLE OF FORTY THOUSAND OF THEM. |
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| WE GOT OFF THE BOAT IN CHUNKING (NANKING). WE WENT TO A SAD ZOO AND VISITED PANDAS, WHICH ARE NO LONGER ON THE ENDANGERED LIST. I AM SURE THATS ONLY BECAUSE THE CHINESE SAW A WAY TO MAKE A BUCK OUT OF THEM AND DIDN'T WANT THEM DEAD AND GONE. |
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| I TOOK THIS PIC OUT THE BUS WINDOW. WE WERE ON A VERY BUSY MULTI LANE STREET FILLED WITH RUSHING CARS AND TRUCKS ETC. AND THIS LITTLE GIRL WAS WANDERING AROUND RIGHT ON THE ROAD!! THESE PEOPLE JUST DO THINGS SO DIFFERENTLY THAN US. AND THIS IS NOT OKAY!!!!!!!! |
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| THIS IS A WEDDING SETUP. THATS ANOTHER ODD THING. TWO MONTHS BEFORE A WEDDING, THE BRIDE RENTS A FEW DRESSES, HIRES A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER, AND DRAGS HER GROOM TO A BEACH, OR SPECTACULAR BUILDING OR PARK AND GETS A THOUSAND PICTURES TAKEN. THEN THEY GET THEM BLOWN UP TO IMPOSSIBLE SIZES AND PUT THEM AROUND THE ACTUAL VENU ON THE DAY OF. |
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| THIS LITTLE ONE REMINDED ME OF ARNIE WHEN SHE WAS THIS AGE. I MISS HER. |
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| HAHAHA! I HAVE THE GLOBAL NEWS ON RIGHT NOW AND JUST AS I WAS ABOUT TO WRITE ABOUT BICYCLE RENTALS, A STORY ABOUT VANCOUVER BIKE RENTALS CAME ON!!! MAYBE ITS A SIGN FOR ME TO GET OFF MY BUTT AND GO TO A SPINNING CLASS! |
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| AND THIS IS THE TROUBLE WITH TOURING IN CHINA. THERE ARE FIVE MILLION CHINESE TOURISTS DOING THE SAME THING. YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE THE FRONT OF THE LINE OF BUSES AND WE HAD TO WALK RIGHT FROM THE FRONT...GRRRR. THE LAST TIME WE WERE IN CHINA THIS WAS NOT THE CASE. TOURISM HAS EXPLODED...AND KIND OF RUINED THINGS. ITS BECOME LIKE DISNEY LAND WHERE THE TWO HOUR LINE UPS MAKE THE DAY NOT FUN |
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| AT THE RICE TERRACES WE BOARDED A BUS AND WE WERE DRIVEN UP AN EXTREMELY STEEP AND HAIRPIN CORNERS VERY NARROW ROAD TO THE RICE TERRACES. HOLY SHIT!!!! I HONESTLY THOUGHT WE WERE ALL GOING TO DIE! YOU KNOW HOW YOU HEAR ABOUT TOURISTS DYING IN BUS ACCIDENTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES? WELL ITS A FREAKING WONDER WE DIDN'T! THAT DRIVER WENT HAIR BENT FOR ELECTION, TOSSING US AROUND CORNERS AND NARROWLY MISSING THE ODD ONCOMING VEHICLE. IT WAS CRAZY!!!! THERE WAS A VILLAGE UP THERE. VERY PICTURESQUE. |
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| THE VILLAGE HANGING OFF THE EDGE OF THE EARTH |
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| TERRACES |
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| THE HUMBLE LOBBY AT THE END OF A LONG DAY |
I noticed your cute purse!
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