Well Itried logging in today and it worked after the second try. Ying met me at the airport and we have been doing great every since. We went to Davids 203 agency and I felt I was treated ok. The lady manager said the "paper" that I remembered to bring might not be enough so she said I should call the American Embasey and see what they had to say. So I did and of course they have a window that they do this and the next one is thursday of this week. We were going to get married today. Then tonight after Ying left I started thinking and yes I understand the consiquinces of that. But the single status paperwork were sent to the Chinese Embasey in America so they should be good. I think in the morning we will try to get married with those papers. I want to keep 203 out of it as much as possible. Regardless of if they are legit or not it is still all about the money for them, I really dont think they care at all about the women and men. Its just a numbers game for them, the more letters the more money.
David said in his post that the food was hot in Chengdu. Well I think he left out how hot the stuff really is. I had a not hot food today at lunch with her parents and I thought I was going to die right in front of her parents. I just couldnt breath it was so hot. So me being so smart I took a big swig of cold water that I ordered seperatly since all they drink here is hot water or hot tea. And that made it a hundred times worse it rinsed out my mouth and down my thought that was allready closed up. Finally I got myself back under control. Then I used a few napkins to dry my eyes.
At one point during the meal her father actaully passed me a napkin for my eyes. The food is great but wow is it hot. I used a transolator from 203 at lunch time to meet her parents and it cost 50 Yuan an hour, well worth it.
We had lunch sunday after visiting the pandas and you talk about fresh food the guy brought over a live chicken hanging by its feet still alive and asked if this was the one we wanted. How fresh is that. Then Yings friends daughter ate the head of the chicken after it was served to use. Another guy was walking around with live tutles on a string. Fresh is fresh.
David I will be here for another week. I dont know what I can do to help but please call me if you like or email me.
I have had a couple of things come up that I know I wrote and she wrote and it is not the same as it is now but they are such small things I dont know if I am going to bring them up or not. In the big picture they mean nothing.
So needless to say at the moment I am a happy camper.
I will post again when I can. Thanks for all the kind words.
Tommorrow if we do not get marryed we will go see the big Budda that David talked about. Ying has a car so we are all set. I dont know what kind it is but is is real real small and kind of cute.
