It’s been an awesome day. We took a 5-hour bus ride headed westward through the mountainous terrain of Fujian province. When we arrived in Sanming, Shawna’s mom was at the bus station to meet us and we were taken to her grandparents’ apartment where I met her 3 aunts and uncle-in-laws in addition to the grandpappies. They were all extremely warm and welcoming. After walking through a public park that hugged a small river (small by Chinese standards, I should add) we had an epic dinner banquet to celebrate Shawna’s grandfather’s 80th birthday. The dishes kept coming and the Bud Light kept pouring. Among the dishes, the most challenging was a big bowl of spicy broth within which were these types of eels (鳝鱼 shan4yu2) cooked whole. They were slimy and squiggly and all bore a terrified, emaciated expression on their faces (see picture). They didn’t taste so bad, but definitely didn’t look so good on the other hand.
The rest of the evening we looked at old pictures of her mom and aunts wearing Communist outfits when they were young adults.
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