Hot Springs!

This is the real reason I took the Fulbright: Not for the glory of being a Fulbrighter for the rest of my life, not to help people, but to be within a half hours drive of hot and cold natural springs.

Katie and I took our first trip to the hot springs this weekend! Like the cold springs, they weren't what I expected. For one thing, it was clearly an all-day event for most of the people there. They were complete with a concession stand, saunas, a gigantic slide, and about 25 different pools. Some of the pools had different herbs added to them that were supposed to help the body, but really all Katie and I could pick up without Chinese was that... they were all different colors! So, naturally, we needed to visit each of them, in reverse rainbow order. The weirdest one, however, was the one that was clear, with live fish in it. You sat, the fish swam, oh, and they nibbled dead skin off your body. Very. very. strange.