We got a different guide today, Mary whom Brent actually had on his first trip to Nanchang when he adopted Angie. The guide remembered Brent too.
She took us to People's Park a lovely park with shade trees and a river running through it. Great place for people watching although I think just as many people were watching us and the curiosity we were.
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| Majong tournaments at the park |
After lunch and nap we walked as we do every afternoon to kill time until dinner and bedtime. Jack get's very bored in the room. We made a stop at Walmart and pretty much as soon as we entered, we found we had a shadow. I kept stepping aside to let this guy pass and he didnt 'want to, he just kept following us. He thought he was a very good spy because one time when I let him pass he did and he thought he was very clever following us by being in front of us. When we'd turn down and aisle, he'd turn down the next one and loop around and come back to our aisle and pretend to be browsing where we were standing. We started to have fun with it and we'd walk and then suddenly dash into an aisle to see how far he'd go to follow us. He kept up. We faked going up an escalator and as he was in front of us, he got on and then we walked away. Problem was, we were actually trying to get on the escalator to get to the next floor to buy something. So we waited trying to calculate how long it would take him to get off the escalator and catch the next one back to us and then we got on. He was waiting for us at the bottom. We made a lot of crazy turns and bought our stuff and got out of there. It was all fun an games, but I wanted to make sure he didn't follow us back to the hotel. If he was a really good spy he would have changed his bright yellow shirt when he realized he'd been made, but I don't think he did, so I think we were ok walking back to the hotel.
Jack was all fun today and didn't yell for Daddy as much with just me around. We're still getting used to having a boy that pee's at will all over the city. Seriously! He ruined a couple of good pictures as I was lining up the camera, he'd walk into my shot and pee. I'm pretty sure he thinks it's funny that we both jump and try to find somewhere for him to go when he says, "Wu niao". Much to our embarrassment, he usually pulls it out and THEN tells us Wu niao. In the restaurant, in the car, in the stroller, walking down the street. Yes, I see that, lets see if we can find somewhere more private. Again, we are the only ones embarrassed by this. All the kids wear split pants and squat on the street whenever they need to go. Even adults don't mind using a wall or a tree lining the sidewalk. He told us he had to go just as we got up to the counter at KFC. Brent grabbed him and ran for the door and was trying to find a secluded tree. Meanwhile I watched a family stop right outside the door of the KFC. The momma pulled a little girls panties down and had her pee right there while grandma held a drink for the little girl and she pee'd and drank her drink at the same time and no one but me seemed to think in front of a restaurant was a bad location for this activity.
In the evening, Mary took us to a huge water fountain show that was by the river. We told her we had been to it the night before and she told us that that was just a small one and almost seemed embarrassed that we thought that was the big water show. She kept emphasizing that that was just a little one.
The water fountains lined the river for maybe a half a mile and it was synchronized with music and lights and even the skyscrapers across the river lit up with lights and seemed to be synchronized with the show. It was pretty spectacular. Mary said at the highest point the water shoots 120meters in the air. Everyone oooh'ed and cheered.
We had noticed a huge ferris wheel from our hotel window for the first time today. This was the first non rainy day and the sun came out, so I guess that's why we just now saw it. Mary took us to see it after the show. It's huge, she said it was the biggest in Asia, but she thinks one was just built in Singapore that is bigger now. It's like the one in England with the cars you can stand up in. I'm not a fan of heights, so we did not go for a ride, but it was stll very impressive looking at it from the ground.
Our last evening in Nanchang.
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