Hello from Dalian

We are in Dalian right now. It is the prettiest city in China. It is on the Yellow Sea and surrounded by mountains. It is so clean. I would recommend this city to anyone visiting China. Every night there has been fireworks all over the city because of the Spring Festival. They celebrate for weeks. They had firecrackers on the sidewalk and really scared me while walking. We took a bus tour today. It was so nice to see the ocean and the waves crashing against the rocks. It would be absolutely beautiful in the summer months here. There is no snow because it is spring here. We did this whole trip with no snow! We have been staying in a really nice apartment with a toilet. The dvd's are $1.00 cdn so we have stocked up. Our apartment has a dvd player so we have been catching up on movies. We fly out this Saturday back to Hawaii for one week. I can't wait! I miss Hawaii and western food. We have been eating chinese food for every meal. The rest of the team are at a Japanese sauna right now. It is supposed to be really fancy with hot springs and different types of saunas. We are having supper at Starbacks right now. Kentucky Fried Chicken is so popular in China. It's like Macdonalds back home. A popular drink here is coffee mixed with tea. It's really good.