Yesterday Crystal and I celebrated our 1
year anniversary, my 1st one ever! I thought I would write a bit
about it because it was a good day and because I am still writing my main blog
but it is taking aaaaages because of lots of different being lazy reasons.
In the morning a brisk 8 30a.m. start and some congratulating each
other on a job well done getting this far. However unknown to me Crystal woke
up at 7 and hid a few small presents around the flat. You see we have so little
money right now I thought if I just took crystal out for a nice day some good
food and fun it would be ok but no she bought and hid 3 presents for me to
find. This made me feel like a dick for not doing anything like this. I plodded
about feeling a bit sheepish to eventually find: a nice watch, some ‘dove’
chocolate (is it short for ‘Do you love me’? that's what Crystal told me) and a 1 yuan note folded
into an awesome origami heart. She taught me how to make it so I look forward
to showing off my skills at a later date.
The plan was: a really nice lunch at this
Thai restaurant, some walking, some cinema-ing and then a night boat on the
river. We actually went to a mountain which took all day and made it on the
night boat but the crap one because of all the hurry and confusion. Still an
awesome day,
Bai yun shan (white cloud mountain) is
fairly near the city and although heavily man made, a really good natural
feeling place. Busy, even on a Monday afternoon, but excellent weather. We
walked for maybe 30 minutes until we came to a fork in the road, one way
promising a nice big old ass temple the other just continuing up the hill. If
we went to the temple we would still have to come back to the fork to go back
up the hill but Crystal
didn’t want to go to the temple because it meant more walking...I called her a
lazy bitch. Then we saw a little boy maybe 4 or 5
in a push chair being pushed down this long steep hill and
Crystal decided to call him ‘a lazy bitch’…it was priceless. Serves you right
little boy!!! Half way up the mountain there was a bungee spot for only 15
pounds which I am definitely doing in the future. At the very top there was
some amazing views of the city. It made HK look smaaaaaaaaall. There was a
military radar tower/dome thing at the top which was pretty cool too. The
summit of this mountain has a bell you can hit a certain amount of times to
wish for specific things, Crystal
wished for money I didn’t ask for anything because I am a hard worker!!! Hahaaaaaaaaaaaa
anyway. There is also a place where you can lock a padlock which is meant to
signify ever lasting strong love. Lots of old padlocks and new ones, it looked ‘lovely’
dum dum tch. On the way down there was a honey bee area where you could get
lots of honey related products whilst a shit load of bees buzzing about and as
many ants looking for the good stuff. We had some of the best biscuits ever
(sorry Jim!), we literally saw him take them out the oven and Crystal asked for the ones he just made
mmmmmmmmmmmm. Being a tourist we bought some honey too even though we hardly
ever eat it. The same bees had lots of different kinds because the staff grows
different flowers in different seasons for the bees to do their thing. I like
honey bees they seem friendly. It took us around 5 hours to get up, down and
around the mountain and my legs were killing me by the end of it. Maybe they
were tired because on 4 separate occasions I gave Crystal piggybacks, 2 of
these piggy backs were UP the hill…It was a tough hill walk. It made others
laugh and even do the same thing which was fun. We got lost at the bottom but
made it home for 7. A lightning change and we were ready for the boat.
Me in my finest blue and orange shirt…Crystal in a beautiful dress.
We took the very busy public bus to the harbor…how romantic. Got there at 8:05
but the 8 boat hadn’t left. I wanted the deluxe boat with a meal, we got the
tourist boat and a snack. Really good seats and weather though so it was still
really nice. After the boat it was 11 so we went to a busy street regardless of
it being day or night that has lots of restaurants and ate we proceeded to a
ton. That day we only rice soup before the mountain and some chocolates at 7 so
I think a big meal at 11 is ok. Straight to sleep when we get home because both
our legs were on the verge of shutting down.
Today back to work! <cry> Thank you
for reading about this day it made me happy to do and happy to write about. I didn’t take a lot
of photos because the camera battery ran out in 10 minutes, sorry.
Is anyone else celebrating important events
that as a good friend I should be giving congratulations but as I am a bad
friend I am forgetting? Let me know！！！ Really, please do.
The other blog will be up one day and it
will be a monster．Not a lot has
happened but I have plenty to say about it. I am really sorry to Mum and Dad
for not being on Skype a lot. The timing is just bad and there are other circumstances:
crap computers, bad intrenet, no computer, extra job. I do want to speak to
you! Hopefully soon!!!
Love you all, Sam xxx
