OK.....we are getting strange characters when we try to log into the blog over here and Allen tinkered with it and now we have Chinese. We are not very fluent with our Chinese yet.....hmmm...so we just guess at the right buttons to push. So far they seem to be working. Anyway, we had a great tour today. We went to the Yu Gardens which were beautiful, but unfortunately, it chose that time to rain. It was so humid and hot that the rain was not all that bad except for trying to take photos. Naturally, this afternoon when we went to the museum, the sun came out. But regardless, we enjoyed the tour of the gardens with huge goldfish and beautiful plants. Allen's blog gives a bit of detail as to why it is laid out the way it is, but it was fun. Jim did incredibly well on the tour. It was a LOT of walking and since it was raining, we did not dawdle like we do on a lot of the tours. I worried about him and I am sure he was in a lot of pain, but he managed and was a real trooper.
After the gardens, we went to lunch at a local restaurant where we all tried our skills at chop sticks and new foods. We fared well with both. Steven our Program Director (no, not his Chinese name) told us what each thing was and we sat at a big round table with a lazy susan in the middle and it was great fun. He has been great about checking for garlic and onion and I've tried several new foods already. I'm not so sure what they were, but I tried them and liked several!
Tonight we have an included welcome dinner here at the hotel. It is a most unusual Grand Circle group in that we have more varied ages than we usually do. Our most senior member is 93. Yes, and quite spry and lovely. She is on the trip with her daughter and grandson who is about Allen's age. Then there is a dad and daughter, and a family with grandmother, son and wife and their little boy! His name is Christopher and he is so well behaved and is fun to have on the group. There are many people age-wise in between so is not your typical group but I think it will make it even more special for us.
Did I mention it is humid....well, folks, let me tell you. Alabama does not have the market cornered on the humidity department! But so far we are all taking it in good humor. But clothes don't dry very fast, even in the air conditioned hotel room.
This afternoon we went to the Shanghai Museum of Art and History which was a wonderful museum. They had a wheelchair for Jim and it worked so well. We really enjoyed our two our visit there. They have some beautiful things!
The restaurant was the floor above an embroidery studio where the art is all embroidered by hand. It was incredible.
Well, I am going to try to post some photos. No telling where they will come out or how, but I am going to try!
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