Valentines Day Weekend

Sorry about the pictures... I can't get them to load... But I will keep trying. :)

FRIDAY
This weekend has been an adventurous one. On Friday we went with all of our ILP group to the TESCO, which is like a shopping market and has a bunch of stores around it. We went looking for either DVD or good deals where we could bargain. We didn’t really find much of either of those be we did find some very interesting people.
We passed probably 5-6 salons while we were out and most of the workers there we figured were guys, there were a few questionable ones ☺ Anyways all the works have ‘stylish’ hair. A.K.A crazy hair. We went in and got some pictures with them. Just to remind you of why there aren’t many pictures yet is because we don’t have the cord to get pictures off the camera but we did a take a few with the video camera and it worked out ok.
While in the salon, people/workers just keep popping out of nowhere. All had crazy hair and all wanted in the picture. This picture doesn’t even get a 4th of the people that were there or the crazy hair, but don’t worry I will be getting some more pictures of the stylish hair.
This other picture is of one of the shops behind TESCO, It was pretty crazy, lots of cars and lots of people.
There are canals all over the place here. The water is very gross but they all look so pretty, this picture doesn’t really capture it mostly because it is at night. But I thought it was a cool picture anyways.
And the other picture is of a building that we found, I don’t even know what it is but it reminds us of the Space Needle.
I will continue to get pictures so you can all see our new home for the next 4 Months.

SATURDAY
Happy Valentines day! ☺ Saturday was Valentines Day, It was an amazing day. Chad and I went exploring. We hoped on bus 70 and rode it to the very end. We didn’t really mean to but we just didn’t know where downtown Changzhou was, so we were just going to ride for a while and the next thing we knew everyone was getting off the bus.
We ended up at the train station, which ended but being a good thing that we found it.
We just walked around looking at everything. Chad bought me a rose on the street, first he tried to barter for one but the people told him no and put it back so we continued onward and found many other roses for sale.
When trying to get back on Bus 70 to go home we could exactly find the bus stop so we just keep walking for a while to find one. After about 45 minutes or so of walking we found it. While walking we found an outside pet store. There were rabbits, puppies, birds, big turtles, teeny tiny turtles, and fish. They were all really cute, I just tried to block my mind from knowing that these animals most likely aren’t going to be pets…
While observing (quickly I want to say that there are millions of scooters/vespas/ bikes here at everyone rides on) the people getting their ‘pets’ one guys grabbed two fully grown rabbits and shoved both into a little box thing on the back of his scooter. I was amazed that both fit in, I guess there is no other way to carry two rabbits home.
To end the day of love we treated out selves to a good dinner at Pizza Hut. It had a hint of fish somewhere in the pizza but nonetheless was delicious.

SUNDAY
Sorry I didn’t realize this would be such a long post, but quickly on Sunday we went to the Suzhou branch. It was an adventure getting there but the Branch President came from church to pick us up from the train station and we made it for the last 30 minutes of Church. It was amazing! It was so nice to feel like home again and to converse we people that are somewhat similar to ourselves. It was a fairly large branch, bigger than I expected. After church we went to the Branch Presidents house and had dinner. I can’t remember when food tasted so good. Chad and I went to a youth fireside with the Branch President, it was amazing to see such strong youth, and they had peanut better cookies after ☺ huge bonus.

Well I hope all is going well for everyone
Love you lots
JoAnna