Ping Shi

It's Chinese tradition to write all of your goals and wishes for the New Year on a lantern and send it off into the sky like a balloon. Apparently if you do this all of your wishes come true so we thought it was worth a try:) We drove to this little town called Ping Shi, along with masses of other people, and we set out to make our lanterns! If you Google Ping Shi, a video comes up of all the people letting their lanterns off into the sky all at once, it is the most beautiful thing ever! Shayn and I were quite pleased with our lantern, and when we were finished writing on it we took it outside where they lit it on fire and we got to watch it sail away...I'll have to keep you posted on whether or not all of our goals and wishes come true this year:) On the way home we almost ran out of gas and when we stopped at a little town to ask where the gas station was, they directed us to the "gas station", which turned out to be a lady who meandered over to the car holding a funnel and a small jug of gas. She funneled that gas into the car like it was an everyday occurrence and sent us on our merry way, what an adventure!