This time last week we were waiting to get our son, one week later I can't imagine life without this sweet boy! Sunday was our first day of shopping and sight seeing in GZ. We went to a wholesale pearl and jade market and then some famous historic house in GZ. There is a proper name for this place but at this point everything seems to be running together. If you know me too well, you know that I am not much of a shopper. Despite that, the pearl and jade markets were pretty impressive. These markets are wholesale markets and people around the world come here to buy pearl and jade. I have never seen so many gemstones in one place in all my life. Pearl, jade, crystal, silver and other random stones were packed in every store and there must have been 500 stores there. To say the least we were pretty overwhelmed!! I think we did manage to make 2 purchases while we were there. Miles particularly like these strange elevators that were in the market. We spent a lot of time riding elevators...what else do you do with an almost 4 year old at a Pearl and Jade market???
Our next adventure was the Chen Family Temple (I found the official name). There we were able to see artwork and fingerpainting that the Chinese were creating. I had no idea what they meant when they talked about fingerpainting, but I soon found out that they beautiful, detailed paintings were created exclusively by artist using their fingers to create the design. They actually used their whole hands, to create detailed paintings. We were able to watch someone working on this and it was amazing to watch. We were also able to order something called "chops" there. These are stones that are made into stamps . You can customize these stones to say whatever you wish. We ordered a stone that has Miles American name and the characters of Miles Chinese name. This will be made into a stamp that we can keep for Miles.
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