Nanchang-Day #5

Today we stopped at a porcelain store before we went to a park and a temple. Jiangxi Province is known for its porcelain so our group asked to stop at a store so we could look around. The park was called Elephant Lake and it had a nice temple in the center of the enormous lake after crossing two arched bridges. It was a warm, sunny, humid day and very peaceful and quiet at the entire park. -very different from the scene in Beijing at the Summer Palace and Temple of Heaven.

After our adoption group strolled lazily around the park, temple and lake, we went to lunch at another local Chinese restaurant. When we go to these local restaurants, we sit around large round tables with a huge glass lazy susan in the center. Our guide orders for us and the staff brings bottled Coke products and local dishes out, one by one, for us to taste. We roll the lazy susan around and taste the assorted dishes while attempting to feed our babies their steamed eggs at the same time. There is really no A/C, even though they push buttons on the wall to lower the temperature, and somehow the air gets cool yet hot and humid at the same time. It's strange. The hotel room is the same way. We have to ask for a large fan to be brought to the room to cool it off so it's not humid. The other families did the same thing to cool off their rooms. Chinese people like a warm environment, and we are told often to keep the rooms warm so our babies won't get sick.

We eat breakfast at the hotel buffet every morning and we've found yummy items like the steamed buns with creamy yellow (mango?) filling. It's funny though, we never see much milk. Even though it's put out in a pitcher. there's never more than a couple inches put into the pitcher, and it has been like this for our whole trip. We just can't seem to find enough milk. Tea is endless, but milk...not so much. I thought our daughter would love congee, but so far she gobbles up eggs and breads but doesn't really care for the congee.

We are all so tired, and ready to move on to Guangzhou tomorrow night. I will say, our LiLi is quite the good napper. For two days in a row, she has napped with us so we can get some much needed rest! She also sleeps late in the mornings. What a nice surprise!