Today we visited an interesting building. It was originally build by the Chan family as a place to come and hounor their ancestors. There were other uses of the buildings such as housing for the Chan children while they went to schools
and persued higher levels of education. During the cultural revolution the Chan family converted it to a printing house to honour Chairman Mao and his publications, in this way they saved the property from destruction as families were no longer allowed to pay respect to their ancestors during this time and many great buildings were destroyed or taken away from the clan families. Today it houses a museum showing many of the beautiful arts and crafts from this region of China. We saw beautiful carvings, porcelain pieces, furniture, paintings all displayed in large rooms. It was so hot and there were many fans moving the hot and humid air around. We moved from fan to fan as we tried to enjoy the beautiful pieces on display!
We were then taken to a store that sold many of the finer pieces of arts and crafts from this region. Many peices of porcelain and carvings were just spectacular and way, way, way out of our price range for this trip. Ali and I did get a couple of nice pieces of jade for the girls for later but for now Jazzy got a fan and a bead bracelet that she was just thrilled with. The fan she chose is black with a dragon embroydered on it. The minute I saw it I knew it was going to be the one that she would want! The sales lady was trying to convince her to the the one with the Pheonix on it and explained to her that it was for girls. No way man, she wanted the dragon!! Ali got a jade piece that has a tiger on it, now he wears it with the jade peice of a monkey that we bought six years ago when we in China for Jasmine.
Then it was back to the hotel where we had a quick nap and then Ali and Jazz went to the swimming pool and I stayed with Lilianna who continued to nap for several hours more. When she woke up though we had a wonderful time together and got to play on the floor with some krinkley paper and a piece of cardboard! Forget all these little toys we brought with us for her. She is so curious to play with anything and experience touching things! The wonder of a world outside of a metal crib for the first time!
She has a nasty little bruise on her cheek from fumbling over onto the edge of her crib when she woke up yesterday, poor thing. Sticks out so strongly in the photos and will be on her official photos that are being taken tomorrow! We
might get to the zoo for an hour tomorrow but it will be stinky hot so not sure how much Jazz is going to enjoy it, we shall see.
When we got home from dinner we had some play time and Lilianna was enjoying some standing time and even took a few stepps towards Ali, It won't be long now she will be walking very soon.
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