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Xiujuan's First Visit to the USA, Dec. 19 to Jan. 2
Xiujuan and I spent two weeks in the US for Christmas and New Years, visiting my family in Port Townsend, WA. We also had a small reception there to celebrate our recent marriage, and I got to see lots of old friends. The best part of the trip was spending Christmas day with my whole family and my new wife and feeling that she's an essential part of the family now.
I made sure to have Xiujuan enjoy plenty of new experiences while we were there and eat all kinds of new foods, such as turkey and stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, ice cream, steak, pizza, lasagna, paninis, crab, salmon, various cheeses, pancakes, waffles, raspberries, and blackberries. It's true that some of these foods exist in China, but in very different forms. A lot of foods, such pizza and crab for example, she never really liked much in China, but really loved the versions we have in the US.
She especially enjoyed taking the ferries to Seattle, Edmonds, and Keystone, snowshoeing on two-meter deep snow in the Olympic mountains, and doing a 13-mile hike in the Elwah River valley, where we saw elk and other animals. All the clean air and water and abundant wildlife was quite a new experience for her.
Xiujuan got along great with my family, especially my mom. She liked how friendly and polite people are in the US, and how much easier life is for most people compared to China. Now she even says she wants to move there eventually. Her parents have been annoying her lately, and she thinks the pressure will be less if she lives as far away from them as possible.
I'm still set on living in China for at least several more years though, because I think it's important for the business. However, I probably will make more and more frequent trips to the US and other countries in order to meet with customers and attend trade fairs, and will bring her along when possible. I think it would be great to visit the US with her during the summer when the weather is warm and we can do more things.
Current Mood:  happy
Tags: christmas, food, trip, usa, xiujuan
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