Well this past week has been beautiful! It's been blue skies and sun nearly all week!! It's still cold but with the sun mid-20's is bearable. Night time is a different story but with 2 pairs of mittens and lots of layers combined with biking at top speed, I am surviving. It is funny to see people complaining about the SoCal weather on Facebook, when it's like 50 haha. But then Sharon posted that it was 70 in LBC and she was in shorts, and here I am with layers and layers lol.
I've had a sore throat the last week or so which hasn't been fun. It's getting a little better, but at night and morning is the worst. Today my throat hurt so bad this morning it was horrible, but after getting some hot steam on my face it felt fine, just hoping that it goes away soon. Edwina and I think we have the same thing, but she totally lost her voice last week. So Shishi, who am I very careful around to always say I feel fine, took Edwina to the doctors for a checkup. Edwina said she walked into this back alley-ish doctor’s place; people were sitting on couches hooked up to IV’s and taking meds and all that. The doctor looked at her then gave her an injection in the bum….just telling me about how the place looked and felt I cringed. So I am doing my best to stay away from a place like that.
This week has been a good week, aside from some frustrations at work. Edwina, Abigael and I have started a work out regime. 5 days a week (the weekdays) we get together at Edwina’s and doing a 30-45 min cardio workout video on a website. It’s actually pretty fun. We’ve been doing combat ones led by a British guy named Pierre; he’s our new friend haha. We actually have a lot of fun with it and it is a pretty good work out. Abi and I like that we are getting out of the house more.
On Tuesday we did our workout then after getting cleaned up we rode down to the tea house in town. Shishi took us by it about 2 months ago and we’ve been wanting to go back ever since. It this beautifully decorated building in the main shopping center. It’s always a gamble if we will be able to order properly or not, and the menu they gave us was in all Chinese characters. But the cool part about it was that it was on a old-style bamboo scroll. When we realized that communication was going to be a challenge we phone Shishi who ordered over the phone for us. The tea is prepared and served for you in a private room; it really is neat to watch them. The woman puts in herbs into the little clay teapot then adds boiling water to it, pours it through a filter into another slightly larger clear tea pot. She then pours that first bit over the top of the clay teapot, which we thought looked wasteful, but I think the first brew was to open up the herbs. She then pours boiling water into the clay teapot again and filters it into the clear pot. She does this a second time and then served us our 4 little cups. Our first server was great and helped show us the Chinese way to drink tea! Your thumb and fore finger go near the rim and your 2nd finger goes under the bottom of the cup for support. Over the 2.5 hours we spent there, we had 3 servers and had who knows how many cups. Each thing of herbs could have about 4 or 5 brews and each brew gave us about 2 cups each…and I they changed our herbs 3 or 4 times. We were actually really surprised by how much time we had spent there, but I guess time flies when there are cards involved….we are becoming card fiends!!
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