Part 3 China Trip

So the following Friday, one of my cousins came back from school. He's currently 13/4 I think? Was really quiet at the start, seeing as we haven't seen each other in such a long time. I remember him being really annoying last time, but this time, I guess you could say he's grown up. The next day, my other two cousins came back from school- one's the same age as Bec, so that's 12? And the other one is two years younger than me, so she's 17. I heard a lot about the oldest cousin, because they kept mentioning that I looked a lot like her -.- We really don't look that much alike.
Do we look alike at all? You probably can't see anyway..

So after they came back, we proceeded to crash a b'day party for my youngest cousin's friend. We went to karaoke again, and were forced to sing again (in front of the adults..*sigh*) I can't say this enough, but my youngest cousin is sooo cute >_____<

The next day we went to a hot spring, which really wasn't a hot spring, just a fake. Either way, it was still nice. We went with some of their family friends, and also some of the kids from yesterday's party. There were lots of kinds of springs, flavoured ones, different temp etc. Some of the flavoured ones were coffee, rose, milk and wine. I would have enjoyed it better if there weren't so many old perverted looking men who tend to stare, but the overall experience of being in a hot spring was pretty good. After finishing up at the hot springs, we went to a sauna next. First thing we saw was a naked old lady in there o.O Apparently it's very common for people to do that in the rural areas, so you can actually see a lot of naked women changing or whatever. Anyway, thank god she left as we just arrived. *phew* It would have been awkward to find a place to stare at haha. It was suffocating in the sauna at first, but once you get used to it, it kinda feels good.
We saw a lot of naked old people through the glass of the sauna though, as they exit the showers. Honestly, why bother with the shower curtains if you're going to leave naked? I felt sorry for the lil kiddies who had to see all that X'D Ohh also, funny story. Apparently when my sister was showering, some lady barged in because she forgot her bracelet >__<" Lucy said she was huddled right behind the curtain trying to cover LOL X'D Honestly, how rude can people get.

At this point, I'll just mention a few things that I might have missed. My sister has been told that she looks like a foreigner (probs the make-up), and I've been told that I look like my cousin by EVERYONE T.T Not that there's nothing wrong with looking like her, but come on! I'm older than her! She looks like me dammit!
Kinda grossed out by the horrible hygiene around china. During the first few days in guangzhou, I saw some dude puke out the window for a few good metres DD: Honestly, I have that bloody image carved into my brain and can't get it out D:
Looking through family photos, there's one of me when I was in creche. It was my birthday. I was kissing a boy O.O So freaking embarrassing. I'd never seen that photo in my life, didn't eve know such a thing occurred. My aunty was saying how passionate a kiss it was. O.O Damn, that totally does not count as a first kiss. Ahh what do they let happen in creches??

Erm. Back to the trip. By Tuesday, my cousins had already left to go back to boarding school, so I wouldn't be able to see them till the weekend. Unfortunately at this point, it was when I started developing a cough which turned into a cold the next day. I blame my sister for that because Lucy was already sick at that point.
My uncle was getting on my sister and I's nerves, being the joker that he is, he loves to imitate what we say in english, say things that aren't true and be annoying just in general. So for pretty much the whole week, we stayed at home and started cross stitching. In case you didn't know, I got into the whole cross stitching thing in China :D A have half a box full of cross stitching that I wanna do. I'll put up some pics later to show the few that I've done. Just saying, just because it's small, it doesn't mean that it was any easier. There are a lot more squares, and the holes are a lot smaller, so I personally think that they are much harder than the big ones. Just saying:P My sister and I have challenged ourselves by buying a 2.5 x 1m cross stitching of an autumn scene. Most likely take more than a year at this rate, but when I'm done, or have any progress, I'll show you. :)

Well that's it for now, the rest of my china trip entries will be a lot more compact I think, as I will be skipping quite a few days. Ta ta for now!