Not too much to report here. Rainy weather and the creek is rising. Kris babysat a three year old and watched Katie this morning while I did outdoor chores (finally took down the icicle lights) and Karen did paperwork. This afternoon was our monthly demo event at the Lakeview Museum. Katie did OK in church tonight.
We have already blogged about January 18, 2010, but here are some pictures:
-a hotel window view of crazy Guiyang traffic. Note the cars making U-turns in the middle of a very busy downtown intersection.
- we went back to the park we had visited on Jan. 13. Karen and Kris rode a sort of monorail train ride. The day before I asked a person how much it cost to use ride the Ferris wheel, but he did not know English and I did not know Mandarin. He made a hand gesture that looked like he was making a hand pistol. I did not know what that meant at the time, but found out later that meant ba (eight). The hand signs for one through ten are quite a bit different than ours. This site (http://mandarin.about.com/od/chineseculture/ig/Number-Gestures/) covers some of them, but seven and eight are different than what we learned.
-some flowery trees.
-assorted Chinese money. Note the colorful money, the extensive use of Mao's image, and that that the paper bills actually get bigger if they are worth more. There were roughly 6 to 7 yuan (or RMB) to one US dollar. A tenth of a yaun is a jiao (worked with those amounts), and tenth of that is a fen (very rarely worked with those amounts). My favorite bill is the wu (five) jiao bill (second from bottom), because it features a Miao woman with a headdress (the one on the left-recall Miao is potentially Katie's ethnicity). There was no sales tax to calculate - and most places did not do that stunt of writing 1.99 instead of 2.00 to make prices seem cheaper.
-Karen doing laundry in our hotel room. We both had to work to keep up with that - and as we traveled farther south the weather got more humid and it took longer for clothes to dry out.
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