Day Four

On our fourth day (sorry for the delay we didn't take our computer), we indulged in Uncle Todd B's favorite Davis activity: driving to a far away city with the intention of staying overnight but without any reservations or clear idea where you will be staying.  This is best done when its hot and should ultimately culminate in hungry children crying while Dad yells at people about the traffic and high hotel prices.  The Pages seemed to love it, too.

After we finally found a place to stay, we got out to do some sightseeing.  First we went to a church built in the 1600s.  It was pretty interesting and was at the top of a big hill.   We recommend climbing big hills in the afternoon sun whenever possible.  Also, we think someone should sell cold bottled water at the top of said hill since no one does right now.  These two people look good since they are still at the bottom of said hill.  Yes I did use "said hill" twice.  Sorry.  I like it.

This is the building Wes and Kim are in from just up the hill.  Historic to say the least.
Hudson and Bethany on top of the hill.  Kids have too much energy!  Not only did neither the sun nor hill bother them, they ran around the whole time while up there.  You can tell we have been in Asia a while since we neither watched over nor corrected them while they were doing so in such an historic setting.  I wanted to use "neither/nor" again in this paragraph but I could neither think of a good reason to do so nor a bad one.  Sorry.
This is St. Paul who somehow lost his right hand.  I'm going to check eBay for it later tonight.  I watched two girls taking pictures here when a white guy walked up and they tried to explain to him about two people being in a picture.  He, being new, understood them to mean he should take a picture of the two of them.  He was wrong and learnt it when he reached for the camera and Girl #1 dragged him to the statue for him to have his picture made with her.  He seemed sort of perplexed that they would want a picture of a total stranger but its quite normal here.
Hanging around in town after we went to the hill.  Chinese New Year decorations still grace the streets.  We decided to play our second favorite Davis family game ... driving around saying, "Where do you want to eat?" while having no idea where any actual restaurants are.  This went on for about an hour while people got very, very hungry and we almost ran out of gas.  Eventually we just settled for some place we found in the Lonely Planet travel book which was pretty good.
This sort of sums up how everyone felt at the end of the ordeal.  Only one person resorted to this extreme.  Or at least was photographed doing so...