Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Morgan's Update From China

OK, so when I looked at my email and saw the topic of "Name game", I was totally thinking you guys were pregnant and looking for good ideas for names!! Anyways, how are you guys doing! Are you so bored that you can't think of a good name for your car! I'd have to see a picture of the car before giving any good suggestions. Over here I can't seem to get on your web page.

Well, I'm traveling around China with aaron osetler. It was actually pretty conveinent to meet up with him. We've been on the road now for about a week. It has been really fun. First we went to a place in South West CHina called Yunnan province. We spent 2 days in the capital city called KUnming. That was a sweet town and if I were tocome back to China I would definately recommend that place. Yunnan is famous for having lots of different ethnic groups. We went way far to the south next to Mynamar and Laos and it seriously felt like we were in a different country. the main minority group is called Dai. They have lots of similiarities to Thailand'ers. We went hiking in the rain forrest and also went and saw an elephant show!! It was sweet. I got to ride a freaking elephant!!

The 2nd day we were their aaron was feeling sick so he stayed in but I went to a place kind of like the Polynesian Cultural Center except for some of the minority groups here. One of the activities I went to was to see a wedding ceremony of the Aini people. I thought it would be cool to just checkit out but I actually became part of the ceremony. The way they have their wedding is men sit in one room and then all the women come in and grap thier husband to be. Then they have the wedding ceremony. Well, I had a hottie come get me!! She told me that when I went back to the states not to forget I had a wife in Xi-Shuang-Ban-Na. THat's the name of this region. Anyways, it was pretty sweet!!!!!!!!

Now I"m in a place called LiJiang. It's famous for having this ancient city that hasn't been affected by outside influence for hundreds of years. The architechture is cool but all the shops in it have been westernized. It's still sweet looking but not as cool as we were hoping for. It's on top of the tibetan plateau so it's freezing here which is completely opposite of where we just came from. It was sub tropical climate at the place way down south. Right now we are also super close to the Tibetan world and a place called Shagri-La. That is tibetan but is only about a 2 hour bus ride from here. I don't think we are going that far north as it is even colder up their. But it's still cool to just be close to these areas. Maybe if I hadn't already gotten a taste for the Tibetan culture I would go but I already saw that stuff up in Northern Sichuan. The plan for me is to go check out the east coast when we're done with Yunnan. I gotta see the big cities. I think I've seen enough of good ole mother nature to last me for a while. It will be interesting to check out the other side of china, the developing big city side. Well, that's my update.

Talk to you later!!!!!!!!

morgan