Well guys I am back from my date with Anne a bit earlier than I wanted to be:huh:
She picked me up later than the time arranged, it was only by 15 minutes but that wasn't so bad. I was on the phone chatting to Willie when my door knocked, so I said my goodbyes to him and opened the door.
She stood in the hallway looking a million dollars (or should that be pounds???) And smelled delicious. After letting her in we kissed for a couple of minutes, then I put my coat on and we left, because she had told me the car was downstairs and she asked him to wait for her. Did I mention anywhere that she was in my postings that she was gorgeous???:icon_cheesygrin:
Once in the taxi it was the usual routine in the back, sitting close to each other her hand in mine. Once we arrived I noticed that it was not much further away from where I had been to the 'Night Market' last night, so this was good in my eyes. We pulled up and got out of the car, and I followed her into this block of flats. She lives on the third floor so we walked up...The guys are right when they say about some of the smells, and some lights not working.
We got to her front door, and I could hear Chinese music playing from inside, it was not loud, Anne heard it too. On opening the door shouted something in Chinese, must have been 'turn that down', because it went down. This little boy come running out of the living room and ran straight into her arms. She lifted him up, and kissed his cheek then spoke in her native tongue to him and put him back down. She told me that this wa her son, he said "hello" so I gave him the kite I had bought earlier, and he ran away laughing. We took our jackets off and hung them on the hallway rack, like an old fashioned umbrella stand with a long back with hooks protruding from it. She took my hand and we walked into the living room. Now I was expecting her, me, her sister and son to be there:huh: Imagine my surprise when I saw what greeted us. The ones I mentioned, 2 of her friends and an uncle of hers. No use trying to tell you their names, I have not got a 'Scobbie Doo'(Clue...LOL). All I remember is her sister's name is 'Maria', Chinese name (lol Unknown).
If I had know there were going to be this many people I would have brought more gifts. She introduced me and everyone was very pleasant and smiled saying 'Ni hao'. So I answered politely and bowed to the uncle, as he seemed the eldest of the group. Not sure if I done the right thing, so many bloody rules to follow!!! But it seemed to be ok because that brought a GREAT big smile to his face, and Anne smiled happily too. One of her friends got up and offered me a seat, then went in and made some tea. She took great delight in telling me it was Laoshan. So I nodded and said, "I like that tea, I had some last night" and smiled. So she turned away from me coyly and smiled again.
As she was out of the room, Fuyang came up and stared at me, I made some funny faces at him and he laughed his head off and lay on the ground laughing. Of course the family did not like this, so Maria (Anne's sister) picked him up and scolded him verbally, he started crying and ran away. I never saw him til about 10 minutes before I left. They seem to take great delight in offering you things with the tea, being a relative newbie to Chinese custom I never refused anything, so they would not lose face. Anne had finished work at 4 o'clock today and left to go and prepare food for tonight, so everything was nearly done when I got there. I asked if I could help and was told "Bu, you sit". I felt a little uneasy sitting there and the girls staring and laughing, the uncle was asking me all sorts of questions. Like where you stay in United States??? So I had to explain about the differant Countries, and showed them some British Currency I had on me for some ice breaker, in case I needed one.
We were there for about 3 quarters of an hour when the front door knocked. In came another uncle with a dog, I got introduced after getting stared at by him, so he firmly shook my hand and nodded at me, which I also returned in kind. We were just sitting down to this meal about 15 minutes later, when the dog bit Fuyang on the arm, not too bad, but needed a couple of stitches. So Anne, me, and the first uncle got him dressed after me puting on a bandage on him, for them. We went downstairs and got a taxi to the Qingdao Hospital/Surgery. We were there less than an hour, he did need 4 stiches and was given an injection, I could hear his cry when they injected him, but he was quite brave for the stiches.
Once we come out of there, she was very apologetic and angry that the dog had done this, which is only to be expected. So I said that "he will be very tired and upset now for the rest of the evening, so maybe it's best if I just go home". :angel: Relucklantly she agreed.:huh:, so we got another taxi and they dropped me off, just as I got out of the taxi I told her I wanted to speak to her about something tomorrow, but it would be in the evening, as I would be in Rizhao during the day. At this point her face dropped, don't know why???
She said she will phone me later tonight, and let me know how he is.
But apart from that, everything went well I think, and now I must go and get something to eat...
I'M STARVING....lol:angel::icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin:
