Spring Hot Springs

One of the fun things about learning a second language is realizing how many of our English words have multiple, often unrelated, meanings. (I imagine this is true in all languages??)

For example, I just entered the English word "order" into an online Chinese-English dictionary and got 12 possible results for the equivalent word in Chinese. Which makes sense when you think of how many different ways we use the word "order".

"I'd like to place an order"
or
"Now that's an order"
or
"Please arrange these names in alphabetical order"
or
"Order in the court"

So all that brings me back to the title of this post, which happens to be the name of our hotel: "Spring Hot Springs". The first spring being the season of spring, the second meaning water coming out of the ground. The hotel name sounds beautiful in Chinese, but awkward in English.

Regardless of the awkward translation of the name, it's a beautiful hotel, and we're enjoying the spring-like weather and the hot springs-fed pools.


The mornings and evenings are still quite chilly (today's low temp was 37 degrees) but the mid-afternoon high is probably close to 65 degrees - which is definitely warm enough for swimming when the pools are toasty .... it's kind of like swimming in a big bathtub.

As usual, I've tried my best to set up a little "home on the road" atmosphere in our hotel room (which is actually more like a villa or something - we have two bedrooms and a living area). Check out Julianna's artwork hanging by the door!