Guilin - Day 7

ok the pictures don't quite match the blog postings...

We should have had a stay at home day, the kids were still recuperating from the day before. We tried to do a low activity like go to the art museum, advertised as the largest in the South Western region but they had no exhibition and was not opened, apparently it could be closed for months! Unbelievable.

We decided to go to the 7 Star Park and it was a lovely park except the kids were really tired. We did a cave (which gave us a sense of what the war was like when people had to camp out there during the bomb raids), missed the famous vegetarian restaurant, but did see Yueya Shan, where my granddad lived. We missed the Panda and several other “hot” attractions. The brochure of the place had “hot” marked on it, at first we could not figure out why, was it hotter there? But it meant more popular. The other funny sign I saw was Export for Exit and I had not realized before that the Chinese word for both is the same.

The afternoon was Wushu again, we can hear the kids laughing and doing their Kung fu shouts. Apparently Ike got reprimanded about 5 times for not listening with a whack on his posterior, I wonder if the Chinese discipline works or he will just turn more rebellious, he didn’t seem to mind and he even said they played with the other kids a cat and mouse game in class. Wish they installed glass where we could watch them and they can’t see us.

It finally rained, quite a heavy downpour too. We ran for our taxi in the rain and got wet, it was fun for the kids. The lift had broken down, luckily it was fixed by the time we got back. The kids sometimes get over tired and a bit hard to sleep or if we time it right, they just collapse. Us adults? This is like a marathon, we also just collapse every night.