Suzho and USU

After the Field trip we went to Suzhou. It is a little less than an hour by train away and is where our branch is located. We stayed with the Okenson Family, It was so nice to be in a home and to have some good food!
They took good care of us, we had cake with chocolate frosting, waffles, pizza, caramel popcorn, and cookies. it was so so so good! I almost forgot that food does have different tastes and they are good tastes :)
We got there late Saturday night, we just ate dinner and watched a movie. We watched No Reservations, (Emily Ann.... have you seen it? It's really good) Sunday we got up and went to church. We are both so blessed to be able to go to church and to be in such an amazing branch, it is an amazing experience to be here and to get such a different view on life and to see how blessed we are.
Monday we went to one of the gardens in Suzhou. Suzhou is known as the Venice of China, it is an old water town and has tons of gardens. Effie (the mother of the Okenson) took us to Pan Men Garden. It was beautiful.
We also went to a silk factor. It was crazy to see the whole process of making silk. We got to pull some silk ourselves, at the end you get to pull one of the silk ball/sheet things and help them make a duvet quilt. We also met/saw some cool individuals there... (see below :) )



There was a group of Munks! They looked so cool, if you look close you can see us in the back trying to look like we are paying attention to the duvey.



Another adventure we have been on lately is that of support for our team. USU recently made it to the first round of the NCAA. The game was played in Boise, Idaho at 10:30 in the morning. We reasoned it was important enough to watch that we got the key to the school, went to the market for treats and came over at 12:00 am to watch the game.
It was so fun to watch a USU game again. In case you didn't hear the results we lost by one, it was a crazy good game. Good enough to stay up until 3 in the morning to watch it live :)


And this last picture is just thrown in for fun, to show everyone my favorite treat in China.
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chips!!! So good. The only problem now is that I ran out of chocolate chips... bad new :( Other information that some may find interesting. Is that since we have arrived in China about 2 months ago we (mostly me) have eaten 2 jars of Peanut Butter... I love PB! :) (and luckily China has it in stock)