Saturday, we’d just be spending time in Xunyang, and hanging out with family before the wedding. I finally got to sleep in for the first time in awhile, I slept until 10 and it was wonderful! Following a quick shower, my father and I hopped in the car and drove around until we found Yang Fei. From there we headed up to the highest peak in the city. This is a rather famous and beautiful lookout point, I’ve seen pictures of this view before, I just never knew where it was. The view of the winding Xun river, the city situated on both sides of its banks, meeting the larger river is a pretty impressive site. Unfortunately for us, the day was rather cool and drizzly so the pictures are rather gray, but I guess that’s to be expected in December.

Following our photography expedition, we headed back to Yang Fei’s house, where her mother and my mother had been making dumplings for lunch. I really enjoy the dumplings so I had a good amount of them at lunch, in the soup they were absolutely delicious.

It always seems to come up that I know how to play Mahjong, I should be pleased, my parents are probably just very proud of the fact. But my mother thought I should play with laolao, who as my mother puts it “plays everday, every hour”. So yeah, of course I’ll play with her! I’ve got some money, let’s see how much she can take! It wasn’t too serious of a game, but turns out, I’m not that bad. After maybe a dozen or so games, I was up 4 yuan! It was then that the other cousins arrived, 二姐 or second oldest cousin named Yu Yang, and 四姐 or fourth oldest cousin whose name I’ve forgotten. They, along with my parents, wanted to take me to see the old part of the city, not far from where we were.

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