a karaoke birthday

tuesday was chantelle and our head teacher callie's birthday. all they wanted to do was go out to eat and maybe get a pedicure. only another girl in our group mentioned that she wanted to go karaoke, but she was the only one. chantelle and callie and me really really did NOT want to go.. but lucy already reserved a room, so whatever we'll make it fun.

first we ate out at jack and the magic pea. and i got thai roasted chicken and it was REALLY REALLY GOOD. and lucy always orders hot papaya milk because its her favorite and so now its pretty much my favorite. its way way good. its way good hot and even
warm and cold.

then we headed to the karaoke place which we're still not totally sold on, especially when lucy told us it was going to be a 30 minute walk...
but yea.. we had fun.....like alot... which makes it even worse that we complained about it so much...

its way different though. when we say karaoke we dont mean go to a bar where a bunch of crazy drunk people go up and try and sing some songs. no no no. that is not how they do it in china. china karaoke pretty much kicks america's butt.
you reserve a room and of course there's the way way nice rooms but we got the cheaper one.

we walk in and you get your own room which is couches on the wall and tables and then a tv screen and a computer where you pick the songs from. we had two microphones and you just sing with your little group. its way sweet. and included in the price of the room you get a bunch of food included. so we got watermelon slices, cashews, pistachios, these good deep fried dough things you dip in sweetened condensed milk, french fries (ha), aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand chicken feet.

yes. i ate chicken feet.

and you know what it really wasnt that bad. it was just gross, because it was the foot.. of a chicken..

another thing that made it happy was that lucy AND gary came along!! gary is so much fun. and they ordered two beautiful cakes from the bakery. they are also much better than crappy american cakes. they were topped in fruit and had a really good light frosting. it was way good :)
and of course karaoke was a blast.
chantelle and me did beauty and the beast duet. and later chantelle did an awesome rendition of "Memory"

oh and it was pretty much hilarious when gary sang and he picked this song and the chorus was "Amani Nakupenda, Nakupenda, We We" we all joined in and it was just pretty much hillarious. (that's what the video's of)

oh funny story. so near the end we're just laughing, singing and eating cake and callie takes her fork and kind of flings it with frosting on it and it sticks so she goes "oh it doesnt fling off." so as a joke she does it at me.
well
this time it flung.
right in my eye socket.
hahah
i thought i had frosting in my eye
and everyone was laughing SO hard even lucy's chinese man friend who came to give us a ride home..
so again, china sends laughter to the chinese people :)
i do what i can