Hainan (part two): Sanya

Sanya. if there's ever an extra four thousand dollars lounging in my wallet just waiting to be spent, this is on the top of my list. i figure that's how much it would cost to fly here, live it up for about two weeks, and get back with a few pennies. though, i could live like a miser, sleep on the beach (very tempting, even with sufficient funds), and get away with it for about two thousand. oh. that's for two people, in case you were wondering. i was thinking honeymoon. we went to the "big east sea bay" (dadonghai wan) yesterday and decided we wanted to go boogie boarding for the few hours before sundown. we got the guys to rent us two boards for ten RMB a piece (again, with the chinese prices...that's about a buck forty), but didn't have enough money to cover the security fee. in the end, they agreed to giving us the boards in exchange for my flip-flops, matt's shoes, and both our t-shirts. quite fair. we decided not to rip them off (my flip flops were the most expensive...about four USD) and brought back the boards. what nice dudes!