Arabian nights....in china???

Today was a different sort of day for us. We slept in because FINALLY we had no morning appointments, we went and walked on Shaiman Island..shopped a bit and had the reading of our TB testing. Now many of you know that I am a nurse....I looked at Yangyangs arm and declared it normal. It wasnt raised or anything, just a bit red at the injection site so I figured no big deal....well, they do things a bit different over here and they declared it abnormal and made us shell out more cash for a Chest Xray. Ugggh..Not a huge deal, but terrifying to Yangyang and unneccessary! What can ya do??

Then Tim and Doug and Yangyang headed back to their hotel on the Island and Sue and Kate and I went with our guide to the Quing Ping market. Contrary to popular belief it is not a market selling animals for entree items but a herbal medicine market and lots of pet supplies to go along with the pets for sale. Odd, but thats China. We went through the market and up to a bookstore and then back to the hotel for more shopping. We were having fun...the guys maybe not so much! I bought Yangyang some squeeky shoes. They are sooo cute. Unfortunately as soon as we got into the hotel lobby Daddy declared that they needed to go! Tooo loud for our upscale hotel I suppose :-)

We headed out to dinner at a nearby resturant that is close to our hotel. We had a great time. It was called 1001 arabian nights. The food was yummy and reasonable and they have live belly dancing every night. It was cool to see and totally unexpected to find belly dancing in China. Hehheehehee. It was really tasteful though and Yangyang was enamored with the girls :-)

Tomorrow we are shopping with Ann from Red thread. I am so excited to get some good deals on the last of my souvineer shopping. I havent bought much so far and was happy to wait for her to get the best deals!

Heres some shots from the day:





These are all shots from the market

Nap Time!!



Belly dancing

Embarrassing Doug :-)

Snuggling with Dad

Our Sitting area (dont mind the mess)



Lots of glass in this bathroom!!

Blessings!

Amy