Ropes Course

On Monday, the start of Jake's break, we decided to go to The Nanjing Massacre Museum with some of our friends (Chad, Sarah, Chaz, and Kirsten), but due to the holiday it was closed so we ended up going to this ropes course thing. This is something that is most likely not available in the US unless you sign your life away and promise you won't sue, but in China that is not the case. We had a great time riding the chair lift up and taking a toboggan slide down. At one point there was a lady there waving a red flag to tell you to slow down....but Jake just sped past her. At one point I was thinking this is something that I should probably be wearing a helmet for. After that we went on this ropes course, where you would step on swinging tires and boards, cross an area on logs, climb up a net, slide down a pole, etc... At the end, there was a metal slide (another thing that they have taken out of parks in the US) our friend Sarah sat on her jacket and slide down. She flew down the slide so fast and almost flew over a wooden railing at the end. The slant part of the slide was metal and then at the bottom it was wood, so she hit pretty hard and then flew through the air. We were all glad that nothing was seriously hurt. It was getting a little dark so the pictures aren't the best.

Fuzi Miao

Well I know I have been slacking a little on my posts, but Jake has had this entire week off, so we have been out and about seeing the sites in Nanjing. Jake and I had a date night about a week ago, we ate at this really good Italian restaurant called Bella Napoli. The menu was in English and the food was pretty tasty. We then headed over to Fuzi Miao where there is a Confucian Temple and a lot of places to shop. We then met up with some of Jake's friends talked with them while they ate. (There are a lot of food vendors along this path, with a lot of , lets just say interesting, smells). Then while we were eating, it started to pour down rain, Yang Yang ran and got one of the sun umbrellas to put at our table and we waited out the storm, since we hadn't bought umbrellas yet. By the time we got home our feet and pants were soaked, but it was a fun outing.

Jake's tasty and fancy salad at dinner

Me loving anything but Chinese food.

The street with all the shops and a lot of people.

Me and the lion outside the temple

Jake with the lion.

Me at the entrance to the temple.

Overlooking the river

It was hard to get a good picture because it was dark, but these are two dragons that are lit up along the river.

Yang Yang, got us these suckers that are made by drizzling the sugar stuff into different animals...we got the dragon one.

Yang Yang and Donny's friend (I can't remember her name). They had the horse and butterfly suckers

The Dragon...I wish I got to see them make this.

Jake devouring the dragon

Jake and Donny in the pouring rain

Jake might of been a little wet by the time we got home