Ni hao...from the country side to the porcelain

It has been an eye opening day in China!

Our day started with a field trip to the country. We visited a village where our guide told us and showed us about life in rural China. Jiangxi is known for farming, mainly rice, and for porcelain. It was an eye opening outing, and the community was a wee bit different than our North Fargo community! It was a pleasant surprise that none of the numerous stray dogs seemed interested in us and that Jayne did not have to use the public out house! At the end of the field trip and the entrance to the community a lady was deep frying a donut of sorts. Our guide bought us two to "enjoy"...ba ba was daring enough to try one bite despite his tendency to get food poisoning, ma ma politely passed and Jayne chowed down!

When we got back to the hotel, the pictures from the cameras we had mailed to Jayne had been developed. To sum up the pictures..."introverted" Jayne was striking a BIG pose in almost every photo!

We also sent our laundry to be done...ba ba is running low on his work pants...AKA wind pants!

Room service for lunch...ma ma decided on an order of french fries. They were fabulous. Jayne was full from her "donuts", and ba ba had pizza.

Then we decided to try the swimming pool. Jayne was unsure about the swimming pool so ba ba got in to show her how fun it is to swim. Note the swim cap was NOT optional, and ba ba thought why not go with the gold swim cap...Olympic Gold as ba ba called it...and with his Gold cap on ba ba channeled his inner Michael Phelps. Ma ma laughed so hard and ba ba's pool performance was good enough to convince Jayne to try the pool. Jayne didn't love it, but she tried it two times. The service at the pool was excellent! About 6 employees and only "Michael" and Jayne swimming. An employee brought the swimmers their towels and another employee instantly replaced the towels from the stash. Our swimmers were also delivered some warm water to drink after their big swim.

Shortly after we returned to the room, I started to feel flushed. Assuming I was tired from my 4 am wake time, I laid down. It wasn't long, and I was seeing porcelain. I am not sure this is the kind of porcelain that the Jiangxi province is known for, but I am sure I was hoping to NEVER see this kind of China porcelain as closely as I did this afternoon!

The only thing good about my flu of sorts is that it forced Jayne to play with ba ba. Up until this point she has liked ba ba, but preferred ma ma. A couple of hours with ba ba as her only option for a friend has showed Jayne that her ba ba is super fun! That being said, it is 7:30 pm and Jayne's HIGH energy level has wore ba ba out...a pretty impressive feat, so we are off to bed.