Why does everyone else's blog have a catchy title...: Now back to good part

Aaron says that I must be getting bored with the blog because I haven't posted in a long time. In actuality I put this pressure on myself to have something interesting to post about and most days I think, "that wasn't that interesting." OR we travel as much as we have in the last two weeks and then it makes posting a blog the last thing on my to do list, because i play catch up on other areas of my life when we get back home (like studying for that Chinese exam we had on Wednesday this week).

The last couple of weeks have been really good - despite the busyness of travel. Aaron and I feel like we're learning a lot in this stage of life and the trips that we've taken have helped spur on some of that growth. A few weeks ago we went and visited some friends who live in a small city in southern Sichuan province. We stayed up late eating shao kao one night (shao kao is grilled meat or vegetables on a stick. it's a low cost, favorite late night snack of locals), went to some hot springs (read: natural hot springs that had been diverted to be the source of what looked like normal hotel pools), spent some time in the sunshine by a lake, and were encouraged by the conversations we had with friends over the weekend.

Pretty much straight from there we spent a week in Hong Kong and got some time of rest, refreshment, and got to hang out with our friends James and Laura!