Day 5 The Pavillion

Steamed eggs

The corner store worker. This is how much they bundle the children 

Thanks Gemma for the hat!

Heading out on our own without the snowsuit

Today is our first official outing as a family. Mary our guide took us and the other two families from the U.S. out to The Pavillion. This is a Museum that is an historical landmark where the Emperor of one of the dynasties lived. Jasmine loved being out looking around. We managed to climb the 6 story building stairs with the stroller. Several Chinese people came up to us to ask where we are from. We tell them Canada and  have been giving out the Canada pins and the stickers that we brought. Most of them smile at us and give us a thumbs up. There is a heavy smog in Nanchang , not quite as heavy as Beijing but after a couple of hours our throats became really dry and irritated. Even though it is 19 degrees here, it is their winter. There is no central heating in southeast China so they wear down jackets or heavy fleece and bundle the babies in the thickest snowsuits. If the elder Chinese women see the babies with less than three layers on, you will get scolded so we bundled her up and she was sweating...poor thing. Tomorrow we are going shopping, mommy loves to shop! 

Jasmine was not able to sit on her own, rollover or bear weight on her legs but with all of the play time from yesterday she is sitting without support today. She sleeps all night and we noticed this morning that she will now let us cuddle her when she gets up. She loves to eat! Ate a bowl of steamed eggs for her breakfast but doesn't seem too fond of the rice congee which the other kids love and it is served with every meal at the buffet. We went out for a walk to find some juice/cheese and some milk for our tetley tea. Mostly the little shops sell energy drinks and cola but nothing refrigerated so one kind young man who spoke just a little english said follow him to a grocery store ...we think , and as he was leading us into the crazy traffic, I remembered Yulin saying do not cross the street in Nanchung, cars have the right away, not people , so I tapped him on the back and said thanks and goodbye. So no luck with the juice/milk, we ended up with two beer and a snickers bar! Oh and we wandered into a mall, I thought great a mall...but was very disappointed to find every brand of washer and dryer, television and electronics known to man on three floors of a mall size department store. Tomorrow Mary takes us to Walmart.