End of the first quarter

Tomorrow marks 45 days since we left. If we stay for as long as we planned, that means we are 25% done with the trip. Blows my MIND! Time flies when you are having fun I guess. We're just about finished with China.. Just 2 more stops: Hong Kong and Macau. Macau is the Las Vegas of China, which I am really excited about. We are only staying 1 night, so I don't think I'll have enough time to gamble all of our money away. Maybe just half of it (OR, maybe I'll double our money). I am definitely looking forward to the next leg of the trip. We are heading to Thailand so I can get SCUBA certified as cheaply as possible. From there, I think we will make our way to Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. That's the plan as of today, at least, but it may change tomorrow.

We hit up an amusement park yesterday and I have to say, I do like the way China does rides. There were some pretty crazy roller coasters as well as weird rides that would make even the strongest stomach a lil queazy (ask Hbf.. haha). One ride held us upside down for like 10 seconds and then twirled us around and then just stopped. We weren't sure what was going to happen until we were screaming and flipping through the air (ok, maybe I was the only one screaming). There was a roller coaster that we went on at least 4 times and it made me see stars every single time from the first giant drop that went straight down. Those are my kind of rides.. The ones where you may just black out. Exciting :D We were supposed to go to a water park as well, but it was closed. I hid my tears well and we had a wonderful day at the amusement park. The little chinese (cantonese?) children loved us and we were constantly being barraged by Hello! Hellllloooo! We even saw a magic show, a bizarre 4-D animated movie (um, aliens try to kill all the dinosaurs but the fire breathing dragon saves the day and takes down the mothership. Some dinosaurs end up living) and an action show called danger island. Good stuff. The funny thing was, most of the actors in the show were white. They had a taped dialogue so they weren't really speaking Chinese, they just pretended to. It seemed like a pretty good gig to me and the Chinese people seemed to love it. I wonder how much they get paid.. Maybe that can be my next job.