Nanjing Day 4

Qinhuai River above and Confucius temple below

Rachel and our wonderful guide Susan

So it is nap time and we have just finished some very good sweet and sour pork, which we have now eaten three times since we have been here. None of the menu's are in English or have pictures so it is very hard to try Chinese meals. At the hotel our Chinese meal just wasn't as good. Tonight we are going to venture to a local really nice mall and go to their food court. They have Mexican, Japanese and Korean along with all the Chinese food. That is also where James went and got our pizza the other night.

This morning we went to the local Confucius park area. There is some historical places to see about Nanjing. It is pretty hot and humid here today and when you are carrying either your 23lb new baby who is like a little oven, or your 4.5 year old first baby who is jealous and tired then site-seeing of historical places was not so fun. I was sweating. My back was hurting. Taylor was whining, and needing to poo-poo and you know it is not like US with bathrooms you would want to use while out, so we made a short trip of it and came back to room. The things we saw were all a very short walk and Rachel believe it or not was ready to G-O this morning.

We had a rough afternoon and night yesterday. She ran a fever from 2pm yesterday until probably 4am when it completely broke and she slept so soundly after say 2:30 or so. She drank 2.5 cups of water between midnight and 8am and when we went to breakfast she at like a little piggy!! She ate 2 steamed eggs (like boiled egg), congee, carrots, cucumber, and some other little things. She wanted to walk down to restaurant and back up and when we got to room she did not want to go back in, she was ready to go. So the trip out was good, although I noticed she got more rattly as we went maybe cause it was so humid. She is sleeping soundly again, which has not been the norm. So even though she is definitely not well, I think we have turned a corner today and she seems to be headed in the right direction. Thanks for all the advice and prayers, we appreciate it all.

Our hotel doesn't have air, like many places in China, only heat. So as the days have warmed up our hotel room, by our standards is hot!! Last night, we slept with no covers and were miserable hot all night. I can't imagine what it would be like in July or August. Glad we are here in March. We did manage to get a fan brought to our room this morning. As we went to leave this morning our guide said I didn't have on enough clothes. I have on a tank top and a short sleeve shirt over it, with pants and tennis shoes. It is 70's. All the Chinese people still probably have on 2-4 layers on a day like today. We told her back home, you would see no one with a jacket on a day like today and James would've been in shorts. Tomorrow we are going to do a little morning trip to a local lake and a brocade institution (maybe factory). Nanjing is known for it's brocade and we hope to find something to purchase for Rachel.

I am hoping this video works of Rachel blowing kisses and saying by-bye. Too cute!