We are now in Guangzhou doing the US part of the paperwork. It is SO hot. Harbin was perfect - 70s and 80s, here is it is 88 at night in the upper 90s during the days! Guohua is wilting being really unaccustomed to the heat. And she’s a little surprised by the number of people -particularly all the children. Course, even Harbin is crowded by my standards but Guangzhou is a press of people.
We have a wonderful guide named Crystal who takes us everywhere and is very knowledgeable. The medical center was closed on Saturday, so we went to the “pedestrian street” here. It was much less refined and much more colorful than Beijing or Harbin. Here they really do eat the scorpions. There was a guy dressed up like a chicken selling dried olives, and in general streets just pulsing with people. We ate at a dimsum restaurant which was fun - though they tucked us off in a separate room. Funny, we’ve been asked a couple of times if we mind the crowds and all the chinese people around us - seems an odd question since half our children are Chinese. Course the dimsum here looked a little different than at home. I haven’t seen fried chicken feet or preserved egg baozi in the US. But all in all, good. We also went to a beautiful park - the girls were not as impressed but made up for it running around chasing each other and rolling water bottles across the sidewalks and wearing lily pad hats. Crystal said (though not critically) in China people don’t let their girls run so much. I’m thinking good thing both of mine are ending up in the US then, neither is much for sitting still!
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