Bob Ross and the bucket challenge on the Island of Hainan

cz74699 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Where to begin....

always good to know. no smoking, no drugs, no prostitution haha

i am burried and i am also fully clothed underneath

This was a much needed vacation and break from the cold weather. The first day we arrived was bleak and not laying out weather so we mostly walked around and explored Haikou. Because of winter and our location on the island, there were hardly any tourists yayy, and everything was very cheap! (we expected prices to be very high, but so far its the cheapest place I have been to in China) The hostel was in walking distance to the beach, a park, and a small fair-like amusement park.

bumper cars wooo

paddle boat race

beach

The hostel was pretty nice: it had a pool table, ping pong table, and a big screen tv with lots and lots of tv options.

lilly beat pete and needless to say she was stoked

our hostel

One of the signs in our room said no drugs, no smoking, no prostitution. DAMN i was gonna do all three at the same time, I mean they go hand in hand. haha anyways..at this hostel I encountered two ridiculous characters...

First: Bob Ross look alike from Holland. One of the strangest people I've met in my life, seemed out of it and slightly cracked out. He was also hitting on/ propositioning some of the random Chinese girls in the hostel. While he provided much needed entertainment for me, he annoyed Lilly because of stupid comment about Ireland and he struck fear in Tom's heart haha. Tom did not even want to be in the same room with the man. I managed to shmeige a picture with him in it hoorah! Lilly bet me that I wouldnt ask Bob Ross to dance with me, and of course, I can't turn down a dare so I asked. He declined he said," no, I can't dance with out because I don't have my clogs" bummer haha.

look its a baby camera!

Second character: An American man from Missouri.Pictutre this: about 250 lbs all in his belly, slightly choady, tats lots and lots of tats, shaved head. SOOO not your typical backpacking type of guy. The things that came out of his mouth made me ridiculously ashamed to be from the same country as him. At one point we were in the other room and we heard him say," Fucckkkkkkk!!" then a while later he said, "I'm a fighter. I like fighting. I like fighting and sex." This might be attributed to the fact that he sat in the DVD room from breakfast time untill about 4 in the morning chugging beer by himself.hmmm sketchy fellow.

Meet the hostel dog. I think his name was Marley and he was only like three months. He was super hyper and kept shmeigling into our rooms and humping Peter. Very funny dog =)

The food here was excellent. My favorite would have to be a seafood place where you walked up to the tanks and chose what you wanted. Me being the baby that I am, could not stand to choose the fish so everyone else chose for me. I just cant look at something alive and then eat it mintutes later...just seems wrong. Not to mention they were flapping around in the bucket after they got caught. Poor fish =( the mussles were sooo very good.

yum yums

at the best seafood restaurant ever

mats signature dance

partay

One of my favorite nights out was with this guy we met at the hostel. We had grilled seafood and grilled veggies (yummm) and then he took us to a club in the center. This guy was a ridiculously good dancer! Never seen anything like it. He showed us a wicked good time and shimmied on stage with all his might. He was a tinny lil man with some sweet moves.Thanks Mark, wherever you are.

funny people

happy people. minus the sunburn

Bucket challenge: There was a KFC across the street from our hostel that we had been frequently visiting. I don't really remember the exact way that it happened but Tom said that a girl would not be able to handle an entire bargain family-sized bucket from KFC. WHOA was he wrong. Lilly and I strategied and she beat Tom at eating the bucket by about 20 min. She also topped off her bucket O chicken with an ice cream sunday. What a girl -- love her! We proved Tom wrong and I've never been more proud of anyone. haha. I would have done it myself but we all know I have the weakest stomach in the history of time.

eating...

struggling a little..but powering through like a champ

done with the KFC family-sized bucket

The beach was pretty nice. The water was amazing and warm with no waves. I wish I could have stayed there for about another week or two. I miss the beach =(

hostel dog that humped everyone

at 5 am in the airport. lilly was too tired

On the last day I got burried in the sand -- not in my bathing suit either, haha, fully clothed. here I am. We reluctantly left the beach at 5 am to catch our flight and headed alllll the way to Harbin, basically the coldest place on Earth.

haikou, Hainan, China - cz74699

Bob Ross and the bucket challenge on the Island of Hainan