Today we visited the Golden Temple, it is a neat temple up in the hills/mountain that is completely cast out of copper. Supposedly this area is known for its copper and used for a lot of the money in old China. Well one year there was a war and they couldn't transport the copper safely and so the governor of the area had a temple built/cast out of copper to help end the war and to bring prosperity back to the area. When it was brand new it looked like gold and so it was called the Golden Temple. Now it is very tarnished and black but they have gold plated some parts and some of it has been cleaned to give it a golden look. Both girls slept through the whole tour and we had them in strollers so we had to carry the strollers up and down all of the stairs.
Just like in the states the day after Thanksgiving all of the Christmas decorations go up as you can see the large Christmas tree in our hotel lobby.
Later in the afternoon we went to the airport and caught our flight to Guangzhou. We attracted a large crowd of onlookers trying to figure out if the girls are twins and if they are Chinese or not. We found some really interesting fruit as you can see in the pic above and almost bought one just to see what it tasted like. We didn't because we didn't want to carry more stuff.
We were very happy to get to Guangzhou, but it is very humid and hot here. Our hotel room is nice, we got a suite in the Victory West Annex so that the girls could run and play. And that's exactly what they did when we got here, they were bouncing off the walls! They had so much energy and had a great time. They did sleep well which was nice for us.
I have enjoyed following your journey..both of your daughters are adorable! We are also a BAAS family. Do you mind letting me know how big the suite is you are staying at..how many does it sleep? We will have 5 children with us while we are there and are trying to figure out sleeping accomodations. Thanks so much!
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Tina Pierce
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