2010 MIT SDM: White Mountains

My classmate Karl invited Zhiyong and I to join him and his wife Kathy to go to his NH ski lodge this weekend for hiking/snowshoeing. Zhiyong and I just talked about how we want to celebrate Chinese New Year, also where I hope to show him around in his trip, so far, thinking about NYC. When the invitation in to go to NH, we happily took this over NYC, which turned out to be an excellent decisions. Zhiyong really enjoyed the time with my friends here, getting to know American cultures. Sometimes the questions he asked me, totally remind me of the time when I first came to U.S. Nowadays, I am too Americanized and start forgetting those transition moments. His questions made me more appreciate this journey to the West.

Have not drive for a while, I had a little bit hard time to navigate around, not sure if that is because I am in Boston or my driving skills got dull.

New Hampshire's White mountain is so famous. We head to Welch's peak. So amazed how much well-prepared gears Karl has and took along, without those poles and yak-track, we will have trouble to cross some icy patch.

without too much efforts, around one hour, we have reached Welch's peak, which you could see the entire valley. Karl told us that spring time, here will be so crowded and we were quite lucky to have all the views by us.

Here are Zhiyong and Karl.

On the way back, Karl asked us if we would like to go sliding. I looked at him wondering where. Soon he took us to the place which has quite steep hit with ice and snow around. I tried to think when my last time went sliding, almost back to college time. We are so glad that Karl suggested it. On the sliding path, there was a snow bump, when you hit it, you will fly into the air. have to say, Karl did the best, and I did the worst, Zhiyong sort of slide in a curve line. just so much fun, we were having a blast, though I have landed both in the funny way causing some aching. Later, I told Karl that I was so happy that he is not those kind of serious no fun person! They are definitely on my fun group buddy list.

Saturday night, Zhiyong cooked several tasty chinese dishes. We played a chopstick game. Both Karl and Kathy surprised us with the skills of using chopsticks. You will pick up a choice of which shape/color of items you will need to use chopsticks to pick up out of a bowl. The competition was on...