A day in the park

Yesterday we went to People's Park. It was much more than we expected! There were a few different sections of exercise equipment, with most of the exercisers being in their 60's-80's! When you retire at 50 in China, it is customary to exercise in the park in the morning. There were women doing fan dances and some Tai Chi, too. There was an amusement park there also. The rides looked very vintage! The colors and decorations were what our parks looked like in the 50's. There was also a man there making candy. Katie is holding hers in the picture. He melted a honey-sugar mixture, then he drizzled it on a marble slab to look like many different designs. Katie's is a bird. He would make a fortune doing this in the US! Ellie is making progress with letting Scott hold her, although she's still very mcuh a mama's girl! She loves Katie, and is starting to take to Grandma, too. Ellie loves hanging her head upside down, but she has a hard time getting back up! We're off to Guangzho later this afternoon for more paperwork and shopping! We bought an extra suitcase yesterday, even though we haven't bought that much yet! Bargaining here is customary, so when we went to the luggage store with Julie, another mom in our group, she did the bargaining fo us. She lived in China for a month on business. Anyway, the lady at the shop wanted 480RBM (Chinese currency) for one bag. This is about $49. When all was said and done, we left the store with 2 suitcases for 220RBM, about $30! Not a bad deal! Let's just hope it makes it home!