Everyone managed to get up on time for breakfast today, and we met our guide Cindy and headed out to Suzhou, a little town about two hours outside of Shanghai, known for having beautiful gardens and silk factories. We went to both. The gardens aren't like botanical gardens in the US with plants everywhere - Tim described it as a lake with rocks. The water is surrounded by intricate little rooms. We also went to a nine story pagoda, and we climbed all the way to the top (we whistled at Grandma from our perch.) The silk factory had real life worms, and then a lot of intersting automated machines. And plenty of scarves. The last garden we saw was smaller and very pretty. Dad took a ton of pictures. There were a lot of people that flat out stared at Tim - he is a wonderful freak to them.
The hotel is nice. The Team USA torch team is here - it's Special Olympians paired with members of law enforcement, and they seem to be having a good time. We haven't spotted Sara yet, but there's a lot of publicity about Special Olympics, and we're all very proud to say that we're here to cheer on our athlete.
We are also very proud of Brett Favre, for beating the dreaded Viqueens and putting up some record setting touchdown passes. Dad keeps saying that he only got up last night to go to the bathroom, and then checked the game as an afterthough, but we all know different.
3 comments:
i hope you guys are having a great time!!! im sure china is quite an interesting place to visit. GO SARA!!! (and GO USA, but especially Sara...haha). can't wait to see all your pictures.
I can't help but notice that you haven't mentioned buying me anything yet. Hm. That must be an oversight.
ALSO, the stupid Packers are part of the reason that I am now 0-4 (that's right) in my fantasy league. Sigh.
Has Ann run into any classmates from her flora design school in Cincinnati yet? I forget what they stole out of her car? Should have sent her to automotive school instead so she could weld mufflers on the Chemlawn trucks. Love to you all and glad you are having such a good time. What kind of bribe did you pay Jeff to get the ATM's shut down?
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