Sunday, April 21, 2013

Cotton candy larger than my head

Today we wandered the crazy, massive, rabbit warren that is the Yu Yuan market (sometimes also called the Dragon's Gate market).  We got a scrapbook for Harmony from the same store that sold us scrapbooks for Medora & Lian in 2008 & 2009 - nice to know some things stay the same.

After lunch at an awesome dim sum restaurant, XinYi noticed a street vendor selling cotton candy.  Oh my, that elicited a lot of excitement.  The portion size was generous as you can see in the photos below. She ate it with enthusiasm - for her first bite, she buried her face in it.  She had cotton candy sticking out of her nose!  Bonus upside of the cotton candy - she spontaneously pronounced it "yummy".   That's a new English word for her bringing the total to monkey, watch (pronounced kwatch), oops, pee pee, and yummy.


After shopping, we swam for an hour and a half.  At one point, 4 local kids joined us swimming and we had a raucous game of pickle-in-the-middle going.  After swimming, we had dinner with friends.

Tomorrow - we see Lian's orphanage!

2 comments:

Kay said...

Looks as if Lian ended up with cotton candy in her ear! Nice (new?) hot pink leggings! I think that anyone could get along nicely in a foreign country knowing only "oops," "yummy," and "pee pee."

Unknown said...

More cotton candy for my horses and the Peltier girls - famous words from Blackbeard the pirate. Wow, what a busy three weeks you all have had. Love you - Dad / Grandpailoppol