China is a beautiful country, with some astounding architecture. Today, we visited a famous Buddhist temple in Fuzhou, and the beauty of the gardens, buildings, shrines and artwork was amazing. But, I'm getting ahead of myself. Rachael slept through the night, and woke up at 7:30. She must have been hungry, because she had a full 8oz bottle with rice, then a whole bowl of congee with hundred-year egg and onion, and some yam noodles and fried egg (Western style). That knocked her out for a good nap, so she slept through the first half of the Buddhist temple, but did wake up and enjoyed the tour and then some Chinese lunch. Though it was very humid and about 88F, but the copious shade in the gardens and some bottled water kept us going, and I'm very glad we went. Not only was it beautiful, but we also had some good times joking and talking as a group. At one point, I rounded one corner to see this panoramic view of 3 temples and pagodas, and two people bowing and offering incense, and thought, "Dorothy, this isn't Kansas anymore". Definitely a place you could spend a whole day to see. After the temple tour we had a good lunch (fried rice, steamed pea pods, chowed broccoli, Kung Pao chicken, pot stickers, congee, and steamed egg), and Rachael made quite a hit with the wait staff at the restaurant. They loved watching me feed her steamed egg, which was part because it's very difficult to do because it's like custard, and they were impressed a Westerner could use chopsticks so well. But, heck, let's be honest here -- they were really goggling our cute baby and all the faces she would make for them. After Rachael hammed it up a bit, the heat of the morning and a big lunch set her up for a power nap. Rachael didn't make it half-way back to the hotel before she was knocked out for a good nap (which she is two hours into right now). We're getting ready to wake her up and take her to the pool, which should be interesting.
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