Day 6 -- Touring Teng Wang Ge Pavilion

Roger:  Today we did a little sightseeing around Nanchang.  Jenny took us to Teng Wang Ge Pavilion.  The pavilion looked old but this particular structure was built in 1989.  It was the 29th rebuild since 653 AD.

Jenny told us a lot of local history about the area and legends about some of Nanchang’s famous people.

We spent the rest of the day relaxing in the hotel room.  I was able to take a much needed nap.

Emily's personality is starting to shine.  She is definitely relaxing more around us and figuring out we are hanging around. 

Tammy:  Today we spent some time learning about the culture here in Nanchang and from Emily's town Fuzhou. We watched a show with some of the different music and dance they do here. It was pretty cool. Our guide talked about some of the different things that "westerners" might not know. For instance, if your license plate has the numbers 8 or 9 at the end of the number you are wealthy. You don't want the number 4 at the end but it is ok if it is somewhere else. (We won't talk about what that means).  Jenny also talked about the one child rule. I am so glad she explained a little more to us. I am sure if I tried to write it down I would mess the whole thing up! I did understand that if you work for the government and you have more than one child you lose your job and have to pay the fine.  Everyone else just has to pay the fine. We can choose to have more than one child or not. Kind of weird having your government tell that you can or cannot have more kids. Very thankful for the men and women that protect our country so that we can live with the freedom we have!

Emily has done well today. We wore her out! We decided to go to a local restaurant Jenny told us about for dinner. Sure wish my food wasn't so spicy! It was good. But my mouth just couldn't take the heat. The boys had some good pizza. Roger ate his dish heat and all. Emily well, she was a crabby patty most of the time but she chose Gerber puffs with banana for herself.

Ryan:  Today on our tour we walked by a street vendor and they were selling these pod looking things.  Jenny, our guide, bought one for us and said this is the seed to the lotus flower.  Part of Emily's Chinese name (Lian) means lotus flower. 

She said that you could eat the seeds...she popped it right out of the pod, peeled it, split it in half, and removed the bitter center thing.  She then ate it.  So, I decided I would try it too...big mistake!  Even with the bitter center thing not there...it was super bitter...and disgusting.  I quickly spit it out. 

Jonny:  During our tour today I was very very hot and sweaty.  Inside they had these really cool fans...I mean cold cool fans....but they didn't cool the whole building...so I just stood in front of them whenever I could.  The pavilion looked familiar...like something I would have seen in Kung Fu Panda 2.