US Consulate Appointment
We weren't allowed to take cameras, phones, or any personal items into the consulate, so we don't have any pictures of this important occasion.
Since we had the first consulate appointment of the morning, when we returned to the hotel around 10:00, we decided to visit Luahua Park. It is an absolutely beautiful park! We thought the park in Zhengzhou was pretty, and this one puts that one to shame!
They even had rides at this park, so Nina rode her first carousel! She loved it, but I think she wanted to ride something more thrilling. She kept pointing to the other rides! We couldn't find where to buy tickets to the other rides and most of them were closed anyway.
We played for a little, but we were literally starting to melt!
On the way back we ate green tea and vanilla swirled ice cream cones from McDonald's. I am not a big ice cream fan, and it could either be the tea flavor or how hot I was, but it tasted so delicious!! Nina would not try any though!
Tonight we had our group picture taken.
And also a picture of each family and then all of the kids...
After our picture and a group meeting, the three of us headed back to Macau Street, the restaurant we had our group dinner at the other night. We wanted one last traditional Cantonse meal. We ordered so much food! The waitress tried to tell us we ordered too much, but we wanted to try everything. We had enough food to feed 10 people but it still only cost about $50 USD. We even had steamed cucumbers with garlic. I didn't know you could cook a cucumber, but it was so yummy!!! Nina ate a ton of noodles with mushrooms. The only thing is I noticed they use pork as a seasoning around here. So if you think you're ordering something vegetarian, it probably had little bits of pork hidden there!
Nina is talking so much more. She said "mama", "dada" and waved and said "bye bye". She is also saying other things we just don't understand. She was so quiet a week ago, but now I can only imagine how loud she is going to be on our flight home on Saturday!