I wrote an email about the story of what happened to me and Nathan to my hubby. After thinking for a while, maybe I could share/document this so that I could re-read later on. The days goes…
Today er gu(second aunty from Andy’s dad) was leaving Tangshan. So, we sent er gu off at the train station. Before we entered the cab, it started raining. Andy’s mom hesitated about Nathan and I going to the train station with them. But I insisted that I should go and send her off. The weather was not bad at all when we reached the train station. Anyway, we were waiting for er yi(second aunt from Andy’s mom) and shen tong(her son) to come because shen tong was going to take er gu to beijing with him. Er gu started crying before she left. Don’t know why when Nathan said good bye to her and Nathan started crying also… it makes er gu cried even more. Your mom pursuaded us to leave early so that she won’t cry more. By the time we were leaving, the weather was fine initially. We wanted to take a cab to er yi’s house to pay a visit for a while. But just after we stepped out of the station, the rain came back. This time stronger and we had to stop under the big commercial umbrella to avoid the rain. We thought that it would be good enough with the protection, but the wind blew so strong that the umbrella flew away. Then it started raining hails. We had to run back to the station to avoid the rain. I ran with Nathan and I wasn’t careful with the step and we both fell down on the ground. Nathan was frightened. We quickly picked him up and ran to the store. In the store, he was crying and even a bar of chocolate was not good enough. He was wet and frightened… poor baby!
We decided that we had to go home by a cab. So, er yi ran out in the rain to catch a cab for us. We finally took a cab… but there was a car stopped behind the cab and make the cab driver so difficult to go out. Er yi had ran out in the rain again to push away the bikes in front of the cab so that the cab driver could make a left turn to get out of there instead of just reversed the cab out. In the cab, the driver took a long way to er yi’s house. So, we got stucked in the market street with many cars. So, er yi decided to walk home because of the poor baby was still wet and frightened and crying.
This cab driver apparently is not very skillful driver at all… I guess for one she is a lady driver and second I think she just got her license. She even could forget how to make a turn around when steering (she said that she was confused). Mom and I had to teach her a little how to steer. What a day… Finally got home, we had to bathe Nathan so that he won’t get sick. He was crying even louder. So, I decided that I need to nurse him to comfort him. After this he was better!! With the fall, I had a achy leg and little scratch on the hand. Whew… what a day but I still thank God that everybody is still safe and sound!