Playing in Rizhao
This is my first trip without guide who can give us some introduction, without the tour bus which can drive us straight to the touring place. Our company is all travel by ourselves, but I feel very happy.
We pack the bag and gathered to the train station and then went to Rizhao. Although we are taking the slow train which means it will take us 12 hours to get to Rizhao, luckily, it is sleepy. It is wonderful things that I can sleep all the night on the upper berth. When the light takes off, I go to sleep. While arriving at Rizhao, a friend of Ms Annie drives BMW X5 to take us. We get in the car, and it takes only a little time to check in the local hotel.
After settle down, I changed my beautiful dress and gathered together to eat lunch, and then we get on the bus to our first great wonders: Wanpingkou. Actually, it is just simple like other beaches, and we just playing with the water. The unbelievable thing is a source of transportation: the only thing we need is pressing the bottom and it will slide around. But Piangy is really not so good at this that every time when it slides, she will scream, because every time it slide, we will need to lean first. And I do it many times.
There are also most funny swings, although I’ve played many times in Beijing, playing near the sea to see the view of the sea makes it comfortable and so different.
After playing in Wanpingkou, we went to the local clients Mr. Fan’s farmstead which makes me so shocked. As I’ve never imaged such kind of farmstead with lots of vegetables and other things and there are also some wooden houses. We feel that we are in our dream house. At that evening, Mr. Fan serve us many delicious food, most of which is seafood. What impress me most is that Mr. Fan also let us drinks a very wonderful wine and I finally found that this wine is from my hometown called Fen Wine. It is not like Liulanshan Wine in Beijing which is very strong; instead it is very soft with a little sap, just like the feeling of Mr. Fan with lots of humanity. During the dinner time, we talk and laugh and our voice spread very far away, and makes me still remember today. And I also can remember the nickname he gives us: ancestor, old woman, Pigsy, Monkey King and so on. We had to say that Mr. Fan is very charismatic, who makes us, these people who are so far away from home, feel the warm of the home the care from the friend. And the final food is the special food in Shandong called a pancake coil spring onion. We like it very much and everyone eating so many that we all feel the very delicious.
On the second day, we went to the most famous mountain in Rizhao—Wulian Mountain. We went up early to catch the bus to Wulian Mountain Town. We talk and laugh and it takes us only a few times to get to the foot of the Mountain. Ms Annie thought that my slippers are not very good to climb the Mountain, so she changed her shoes to me which makes me so touched. And then we just went straight to the top of the Mountain, and take photos all the time. When we are climbing, we found a place called Water Curtain Cave, Xueling and I decided to bravely get into the Cave, so we took one flashlight and get into the copycat Water Curtain Cave. It is very dark, but the flashlight we hold is just like a light weak but never going out to show us the way to the next step, which is the same as our company aim which never need to remind but always in our heart to lead us serve for our every customer. And then the four of us keep going, but we go to a totally different side. We are all tired but the only thing we can do is smiling and coming back to the way we climb up. And when we walk back, we walk to a very cragginess road where we happen to see a kindly cleaner for the mountain, and he show us the way to get to the Songfengjing where we climb up before. We, just like the birds find the way back, rushed to the foot of the mountain with our laughing. And then we have some special food on the foot of the mountain, which is very delicious. During the way back to the hotel, we enjoy seeing the picture we take, no matter what kind of the pose. And then, everyone are tired and sleep finally.
The last day of travelling, we go to the forest Park. Once we see the sea, we cannot help ourselves rush towards the sea to feel the cold of the seawater over our feet. And we also hunt for seashells, playing. I rush towards to the sea and yell to the sea that I can feel that all the trouble and unhappiness has gone with the sea, what left is happiness. Then we went to a small farm house which is really small and delicacy. We feel pity that we cannot live in this house this time, where we can went out to see the sea all the time, and we wish to live in this house next time when we came to Rizhao. Because we can eat lunch with the seafood and see the sea all the time. And then we eat some wonderful seafood there. My favorite is the big crab and mantis shrimp, which are very delicious.
Just on that afternoon, we get on the train back to Beijing and sleep all the time on the train.
The only feeling on these three days is lucky: as the weather forecast is rainstorm. With the result of no rain on the daytime of the three days, the only rain is on the second day when we climb the Wulian Mountain, but only a little, once Piangy find the poncho in her bag and wear it and also prepare everything for the raining, it stops, which makes us laugh all the time. Only when the evening is coming, the rainstorm coming but we are already in the hotel. And the rain also makes the air refreshing, which is our fortune. Just like the things happen in Vietnam which seems so serious now, maybe things will go better when we are going to the expo there. We can finally happy going to Vietnam and safety coming back. Actually, this trip is also a very good training, without guide, without bus, just us together, everyone are in charge with different project but towards to the same aim. Isn’t this a kind of growing up?
