Our Interesting Saturday

On Saturday we went to the local water park and it was a blast. The only pictures I have are from Mike's phone, so they aren't great.

First we went to lunch at the Temple Cafe. It is a restaurant that used to be a Buddhist temple. It mostly serves American style food. I had a cheeseburger. It was great.

 I stole this picture off Caroline's blog, because I don't have a picture from lunch. Thanks Caroline! Going around the table, you have Matt, Mike, Selena, Jennie (Selena's friend), Yimi's sis-in-law, Yimi, Mike, Ashley and Daniel.

This one includes Caroline. Matt and Caroline are here with Lifetime too. He's an international controller and accountant.

We had a good time. Then we headed across the island on a bus to the waterpark. We spent about 13$ to get in and it was worth every penny. There were only about 5 real rides. On two of them Daniel and Matt were told since they weigh over 90kg their safety could not be guaranteed. They didn't care. It was pretty awesome. A couple of them were the normal slides with one or two people per raft or what not. One of them went up and down like a roller coaster on it's way down. It was awesome.

One we enjoyed, but did only once, was like a skateboard. For the full effect of weight, Daniel and Matt went together. The ride was kind of like this one:

 Not a great picture, but you get the idea. If you look to the far right of the one below, you can see the blue/white ride. Matt and Daniel went all the way up to the last blue section. It's a lot higher than it looks.

 This red/yellow one was also fun. It was like a funnel.

 You go down and then go around. Most people went around twice. But us "sturdy" Americans (two at time) went around four times. I liked it.

Here's a view from the top. I've been told some cruise ships have rides like this.

Then there was the best one of all. It was a sideways funnel. It hilariously awesome.

 So you go down the pipe, up to the right, then come out and swing back and forth on this. We went up so high. A full 8 feet farther up the sides than the tiny Chinese people could. There were 4 people per raft and with four larger Americans we got some pretty serious force.

Most of these pictures were taken from their website. Mike did take a couple of us coming off the ride.

 They were taken with a phone so they weren't great. We came out with more force than any other raft as far as I could tell.

This is how much Mike thinks of me. He took a picture of me falling off the raft head first. On purpose. I chose to go off like this because I wanted my hair to get wet. Awesome, right? We did this ride 5 or 6 times. I loved it.

But here are the two most memorable parts of the day.(If you are uncomfortable with a small amount of mocking, stop here.)

There were two dwarfs who were fighting to push each other in the pool. Awesome. They had life jackets on. In fact so did a lot of adults. Apparently there are lots of Chinese adults who can't swim.

 The other one was the fat 10 year old who lit up and totally just puffed away.

Seriously? Who let's their kids smoke? Even in China they know it isn't safe to smoke. For crying out loud, it says on the packages "smoking kills." No surgeon general's warning, just that it kills.

Anyway, a good old regular Saturday in China.

This coming weekend we are going on a work holiday retreat. It should be fun. I'll blog about it when we get back.