Sunday, December 16, 2007

I woke up late today. Instead of 4.30am, I got up at 5.30am!

It was kind of a rushed morning because I couldn't bathe any quicker! The stupid shower head our our bathroom is leaking! It's not a small leak, it's a water fountain! Ugh.

And the weather was like so cold! Bad morning. We even had to strip our bedsheets to put them in the laundry before we left the house because they are due for washing.

And when we got downstairs at like 6.20am, there was no cab in sight along our road!
We had to walk all the way to the main road and when we spotted a cab there, we RAN for it!

And my feet still hurt from yesterday's high heels and massive walking and dancing.

We were on time despite waking up late (: Found our coach bus and went up to wait for it to set off.

It was sleep time on the bus! After travelling for like an hour and a half, the first stop was Ting Ling Garden. I think its some place in Su Zhou.

We were greeted by the cold weather and empty grass patch with the hotel's big banner on one side.

All of us that attended the outing gathered and were divided into 4 groups. The they distributed scarfs for us and it came in 4 different colours to identify the groupings. They had pink, red, grey and dark blue. My group was blue :(

We then learnt how to do the "Rabbit Dance" and after jumping here and there we got ourselves warmed up.

At first, I was so not interested to play their bonding games but in the end it turned out quite okay. Everyone participated and it felt like I was back in primary school doing P.E!

After the games, we were given free time to walk around the area so YJ and I went to snap photos!

Soon, it was going on the coach again so that we could go for lunch.

The place they brought us to was at Yu Cheng Lake. The main purpose of going there was for Hairy Crabs.

Many restaurants situated side by side were selling hairy crabs and along the streets next to it were stalls selling live hairy crabs so people could buy them home to cook.

Lunch wasn't filling at all and the last dish was hairy crab. Each of us were given a pair- male and female.

I so did not know how to eat lah! In the end, the RSVN people had to teach us how to open the crab, take out which parts, eat which parts etc. Well, at least I learnt something!

But YJ and I were the slowest to complete our crabs. It's such a chore to dig for meat and what other "good stuff" the crab has.

And after lunch, it was a 2 hour ride back to the hotel (:

And because it was drizzling, we had to take a cab back home!

Our laundry also failed to dry cuz we couldn't hang it outside. Damn.

We watched Prison Break until 10pm when I couldn't take it anymore and went to bed. We had no choice but to sleep without our bedsheets and quilt cover and pillow cases. Sigh.