It’s been a while since I had an internet connection so there is a lot to write, but there is little time because Bin’s father is picking us up in 20 minutes for dinner (I’m still full from lunch).

The day after the notorious ganbei incident Adrienne (who didn’t drink a sip of alcohol) got very heavy cramps. After a couple of hours of a lot of pain we decided to call Bin’s uncle who is a very high offical for the horspitals in Yantai. He came together with a doctor who diagnosed some intestinal infection caused by the seafood we consumed the night before. Adrienne had to come a long to a clinic (the hospital was too far away) for an infusion with some (who knows what kind of) medication. Everything was arranged very fast and after getting the infusion she was luckily feeling already a lot better.

We spend the rest of the day lying in bed feeling not so well. The family of Bin apologized over and over again for having all of so sick. Of course it was not their fault and after all this whole adventure is one we will not soon forget.

The next day we left for Tai’an where we would climb the famous holy mountain Taishan. A 6600 step monster.

The day that we would actually climb the mountain however we were both feeling not so well again (read 10 minute interval between toilet visits). In this state we could of course not climb the mountain. Bin’s aunt was however so helpful that she moved our flight to Shanghai one day so that we could climb the mountain a day later. Which we did…