People's Park and Porcelain

On Friday, we went to the People's Park in Nanchang.  It was hot and humid but other than that, it was fun.  Matt and Taylor went on a roller coaster type thing that I'm sure had never seen a safety inspection.  Then Taylor and Audrey went inside of a large inflatable ball and floated on a lake.  The idea is to stand up inside and travel around hamster-style but they had a hard time getting started.  We have some hilarious video of them.  Needless to say, I didn't give it a try.  It was so hot and humid outside of the ball that I didn't want to know what it felt like inside of it.

 

After the park, we went to the porcelain district.  I found the '100 Girls' tea set which was 860 yuan while many other comparable sets were 180.  I was only able to get the lady to come down to 800 yuan and throw in a set of chopsticks so I don't have much hope for my bargaining skills for the rest of our stay in China.  It was funny as we checked out, when the lady mentioned that they also have a '100 Boys' set.  She said quite bluntly, 'In China, we like the boy.'  I said, 'Well, we like all children.  We have 5 of them.'  That seemed to promptly end the conversation....:)