Great Wall

Great Wall

Monday, February 24, 2014

Day 11: Day Off - Liu Hua Park

Today was an off day for us.  It is a day built into the schedule incase any results from back from the TB test that they give the kids that need further assessment.  They basically told us no news is good news so we had the day to do whatever we wanted.  We were running low on supplies for Mila, so after breakfast we took a taxi to a huge french owned supermarket kind of like Walmart downtown.  It was a really cool store because it was all underground and what sort of this winding labyrinth of hallways with product on either side.  What was cool was they had these moving walkways that were ascending or descending in elevation.  We had Mila in a shopping cart and when we got to the first belt we were like, how does this work.  Baba was just going to push the cart onto the belt and hope for the best.  Turns out there was some sort of magnet system in the belt that very firmly held the cart in place until we reached the end of the belt.  We were able to find the supplies she needed and headed back to the hotel.

After her nap, we walked next door to the local park Liu Hua which was very beautiful.  There were many winding walkways and really pretty palm trees lining everything.  We saw more fan dancers and there was even an amusement park in the middle where Mila got to ride a few rides.

After the park, we ate dinner at the Coffee Table again and then played some at the hotel kids play area (very nice the hotel has this).