This has been a good day. My lady turned up at my hotel wearing a sexy pair of shorts and over the knee socks! As if that wasn't heavenly enough she had bought me a hot pork bun for my breakfast.
Well I survived the 4 hour train journey to my ladies home town. My goodness the crush to get on the train at Wuhan was horrific. I did enjoy the train journey though. It was good to see people eating noodles, playing cards and talking very loudly! I loved the food sellers coming through with melon on sticks and stuff. Outside I saw glimpses of rural China. The cow is the most popular make of tractor. All train stations have a uniformed man that stands beneath a sunshade. There is construction going on everywhere.
While my lady slept on the train I was overcome with the thought that I have found my perfect lady. It is astonishing how much we have in common. As soon as I saw my lady on chnlove I realised that she was different from all the other ladies. I was right and I am pleased with my male intution. Maybe you can tell more from MSN and Skype than we realise.
My lady's hometown is smaller than Wuhan, but I can't say it's any less crazy. The grow oranges and green tea here. The ladies here, well they're even hotter than in Wuhan (if that's possible). My lady was right, the clean air makes for the beautiful lady.
I have internet in the hotel but my mobile phone doesn't work around here.
This evening I went to my lady's apartment to meet the parents. The building was one of those really old crumbling places that smells of cooking and has many dogs running around outside. But inside the place was really lovely. It was also a lot bigger than I expected.
I met my prospective in-laws. My lady's mother is an excellent cook. I mean really omg excellent. She cooked a sumptuous feast. I didn't impress them with my appetite but I don't like to eat too much when I am hot and stressed, and this is the most stressful thing that I have ever done.
Anyway, the food was really astonishingly good. Everything was insanely hot, but not so hot that it was inedible. I think we ate authentic Hubei Province dishes, but I've never seen them in England. At home we mostly get Cantonese stuff, which isn't that spicy.
I am not sure how successful my gifts were. Their lifestyle is just so completely different to ours. But the generation gap between my lady and her parents is vast.
I noticed that my lady's mother is strikingly beautiful. She has flawlessly beautiful unwrinkled skin. For a woman of nearly 60 that's just unbelievable. I will try to determine her secret, as it would make me a multi-millionaire in the West! Hmm, I don't know if all Chinese ladies are like this, perhaps my brothers could share their stories.
Another thing I noticed is that when my lady is with her parents she speaks in a quite different dialect to what I've heard from her up to now. Wow, I won huge lady points for pointing this out!
rockycoon - we already get a lot of stares, if we held hands in public, omg I swear that people would be walking into trees or getting run over by mopeds! I think you could get away with it in Shanghai or maybe Guangzhou, but here, hmmmm.
I have been told to return to my lady's parents apartment next week. I will talk to my lady's mother. I will show them my photos.
I wore a shirt and tie to see them. I think that made a good impression. I am used to the heat and humidity now although it's not that hot at the moment.
In other news I have discovered that the Chinese make fruit beer. My lady likes it and so now do I. Actually my strangest discovery of the day was a supermarket where the beer cans were all stacked up the wrong way up. This really is a strange place.
I have now seen a total of 20 westerners in China. 12 of them were in the Wuhan hotel.
