A Crazy Taxi Ride

         Okay so yesterday Sammy and I committed to staying in bed all day, but Garett made us be physically active. So Garett, Sammy, Seth, Eban, and I ended up leaving to go hike Purple Mountain.

         Sammy, Garett, and I got in this taxi and it was the craziest experience of my life. For the first ten minutes the driver just flat out stared at me (I was in the front seat). Then he finally started talking to us and asking us where we were from and where we were studying. Then we all started joking around and he was probably the funniest person I’ve met in China. It was so fun. 

         At one point we drove through a tunnel and the three of us started holding our breath. He looked at me like I was crazy and kept on asking me why I wasn’t speaking and what was going on, but I couldn’t respond because I had to keep holding my breath. He kept on laughing at me until we got out of the tunnel. He asked us what just happened and we explained that in America, when you go under a tunnel you have to hold your breath. He then asked what happens when the tunnel is long. I responded that you die. He started laughing and then asked why we did that. None of us had any answer for him. Then he started laughing and asked if he could turn around and drive us through the tunnel again to see if we could hold our breath, but we said no because he was already going the long way to spend more time with us. He kept on asking us if he could hang out with us afterwards and climb the mountain with us. Tempting offer, but we said no because it felt a little creepy.

         Also forgot to mention that originally we wanted to go to Purple Mountain, but he told us that it’s no fun so he convinced us to go to another place. We went there and it was a huge tourist trap. Pretty lame. And by tourist I mean only Chinese people but still. We basically wasted two hours there and walked around for nothing but I guess it was okay. But it was all worth it for the taxi ride. 

         I have no pictures of the event so here are just some random pixelated things.

Fun fact: this food was over priced and awful.