We took a Chinese cooking class this morning in Yangshuo. First we went with the teachers of the class to a real Chinese vegetable and meat market to buy the fresh ingredients, then to the restaurant where the class was. Jeff really liked the class and I liked it too but would have been happy doing something else just as much. TongJie and Ezekiel had fun at first because they got to help with chopping, adding ingredients, and mixing, but when it came time for the actual cooking, it wasn't very fun for them. It got so hot with all of the cooking stoves on, and it was too crowded and fast-paced for them to actually help with any of the cooking, so we had them sit at a table right outside the room we were in. We ate what we cooked for lunch and it was really good. Jeff's favorite was the Kung Pao Chicken, my favorite was the eggplant dish, and TongJie liked the dumplings. Ezekiel filled up on rice and watermelon and only ate a little bit of dumpling and mushroom - everything else was too spicy for him, even though we tried to make it not very spicy.
We said goodbye to our guide for Guilin and Yangshuo, David, after lunch, as well as most of the other families. Then we rode in a big van with the From family (Greg, Cathy, Maybel, and Emily), Sarah, and all of our luggage to the Guilin airport. The Froms are from the Seattle area and they are the family we met right at the beginning of our trip who was on the same flight as us to Beijing. TongJie and Ezekiel have loved hanging out with their girls, who are so kind and sweet. We hope we will get to see them again sometime since they live in Washington state. The Froms took a later flight to Shanghai (TongJie would have been a bit jealous if he wasn't so tired of traveling by now - he really wants to go to Shanghai to see the Shanghai tower) and we took a flight to Wenzhou with Sarah. Our itinerary was wrong on the time, and it was about a 2-hour flight and we arrived to our hotel around 9:00. The boys got to bed as soon as we got settled in our room. We were supposed to see TongJie's orphanage tomorrow, but Sarah told us that the orphanage had to change it to Friday, but it will still work to see the orphanage on Friday morning before we leave Wenzhou. Tomorrow we will go see TongJie's finding place, which is at the gates of the old orphanage building. The orphanage has recently moved to a new building, but the old building is still there, so I'm glad we get to see at least the outside of the old building. Sarah said that won't take very long, and we'll have the rest of the day free, but Sarah is going to try to find a park or somewhere for the boys to play. It was raining when we got here, so it might be raining tomorrow and maybe we can find something indoors. Our hotel has a pool but I don't know yet if it's an indoor or outdoor pool.
We're having a really hard time with the internet here and I can't get any pictures to attach so I'm going to post this without pictures and try to add some pictures later.
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