I wish I could say that all our experiences here have been amazingly successful, but as everyone knows, in travel, nay in LIFE, this is never the case. Still, we live through these strange, sometimes unpleasant, sometimes scary, adventures so that afterwards we can bore our friends with the stories and reflect on them with smiles. Our latest mishap, so to speak, is entitled Putuoshan. Putuoshan is an island off the east coast of China, in the East China Sea. Its main attraction is a sacred Buddhist mountain, one of the four in the country, hence the name. ('Shan' is 'mountain' in Chinese). (On another brief note, we gave Kyle the chinese name "Wai Shan" which means "foreign mountain" because he towers above everyone so much and scares all the chinese people away.) We decided to
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