Friday after school, Matt and I went biking around our neighbouring country side city, called Daan. It's just like how it was before we left for the holidays - quiet, people playing majong outside little shop, kids running around, farmers working in the field, and chickens/ducks pecking around. It's always fun when we go out there on our bikes. But I think about how long the villages would be there before they clear them out to build new roads and apartment buildings. Matt told me that when he first got to YC, it was all just farm lands and fields. I couldn't imagine how that's like at all, looking at all new highway roads and apartments that just have sprung up in no time. It's sad to see how they just clear out the hills and make everything flat into roads and for building more empty apartments. After our biking and dinner, we went to do a bit of grocery shopping. Matt was surprised to find that the import section in RenRen (the grocery store) was gone. For me, I was indifferent to it as it's understandable that the store would keep selling goods that are profitable. Then we had a bit of social with our other co-workers at an art gallery. Afterwards, I met up with my other co-worker, Linda for tea. It was a good Friday night.
Saturday, we had a good breakfast with fruit, scrambled eggs, coffee, and toast with almond butter. Ever since we got back from our trip, we have been indulging ourselves with SE Asian style coffee - condensed milk with coffee.
Then we each talked to our own friend on Skype. After lunch, we did our first bike trip to Tea Mountain. Tea Mountain Bamboo Sea is famous here as the movie, House of Flying Daggers was filmed there.
Here's the movie poster:
Source: acdrifter.com
I have been to the park before once last year. I enjoy the bamboo forest as the bamboos are huge with pretty thick trunk. I remember it was very nice and cool to walk in between the bamboos in the hot Chongqing weather.
However, it was my first time biking there. It took up sometimes to find the way there as we were trying to go through this back country dirt road that our other co-workers have told us to take. Minor frustration occurred. We still didn't find the suggested way until we were on the way home that we found it (we plan to try it next time - apparently it's even harder than the paved road). I didn't keep track of the time we used to bike up the mountain. But it was hard going uphill on the paved road. It felt like it must had been an hour. But it felt so good as I finally got up there! Then it was the super fun time blasting down the mountain that maybe only took 15 minutes.
Once we got home, we were invited to a staff potluck. Everybody made yummy dishes. Linda was able to make a casserole with cheese bought from Metro. That was one of my favourite dish.
The weekend always feels not long enough. Sunday was just a relax, chilled out day. We tried to pick out pictures that best represent Burma and our trip. We have picked at least 150 pictures along from the first half our trip. Looking through pictures, it brought back good memory of the trip and I was still amazed by the things we have seen and done. Our goal is to finish selecting our pictures and to write comments along with them to post them up on flickr or picasa. So be patient with us as we would very much like to share our trip with you!
This morning, Matt and I went for a bit of morning run. It was hard to get out of the bed. He's definitely more motivated to get fit than I am. He's been very "encouraging" in calling me the marathon woman -- I have so much work to do for my Great Wall half marathon. I hope with our biking and running that I would be more prepared for it.
Have to get ready for work now!
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