Weekend 2 (Sun)

I went to a Barbecue on Sunday. And it was nice...

Kind of.

I got sick that night with food poisoning. Barfed my guts out a bunch of times throughout the night. That's bad enough by itself, but it really sucks when you're staying in a concrete block of a room 8,000 miles from anything you would call comfortable.

But back to the Barbecue. We went to a market in the morning that had all sorts of awesome things in it (like every vegetable and animal possible. Including Dog :) ) and picked up what we needed. We then proceeded to walk for 40 min out of town down little Chinese back roads with little Chinese homes lived in by little Chinese people to a "secret beach" that everyone knows about, where were set up for our barbecue.

Chinese barbecue doesn't involve a grill by-the-way. It's more like... ummmmm... sticking once-living-things on a stick and then charring them in a flame. Chinese barbecue, it's what's for dinner.


You'll notice in the picture below that I am holding a stone. My favorite stone.

What was actually happening was that everything we ate was washed in the river (remember the food poisoning?). So somebody had to get in the water to wash the "stuff"... that's where the rock comes in :)

Happily walk down to the water with some delicious vegetables, bend down to wash, and *KER-SPLOSH*!! I got 4 people that way.

4.

Vengeful.

People.

The result of my tomfoolery was me wading into the water thigh deep to retrieve my sandals (which had been innocently thrown in) while 4 gleeful Chinese girls threw in huge stone all around me. Good times.

We headed back later in the day and then all hung out at Sunny's since her husband was in town and had another big meal which couldn't be beat. And I barfed all night :)