Vacation Time!

Sean is officially finished with his first year of teaching - yeah! We are so proud of him :) And he got a little bonus from the school! So we had to go down to another city to meet with a friend and decided to make a mini China vacation out of it. We are very thankful that our friends here let us borrow their car so we were able to do the 4-5 hour trip in comfort (and not on a bus). Sean booked a nice hotel and we made a fun time of it... see for yourself!

Cuddling with baby sister in on the car ride down (he was in a car seat most of the time...)

From our hotel room on the first night we spotted what looked like a wave pool so we went to check it out and it was in fact a water park! Such a fun find in this small Chinese city. And only $5 a person. So the next day we were there when it opened (you have never seen so few Chinese people in a place, but they crowded in later on in the day). 

Caed LOVED it. Everything about it. The wave pool, the lazy river, the hot springs, the play areas, the water spouting mushrooms. And he made plenty of new friends with all the JieJie's (big sisters). Someone may have taken a little nap in this boat on the lazy river while Caed and I were in the wave pool :)

The wave pool was his favorite.

splash!!!

Lunch was popcorn, fried rice, chips and apples

I learned (maybe I forgot this from 4 years ago) that in China pregnant women do NOT go swimming, and especially don't play in the water at water parks. I was the only pregnant person there! Which is saying a lot because EVERYONE in China is pregnant right now in order to have a Dragon baby this year :) Luckily lots of people were too distracted by Caed's cuteness to even notice pregnant mom following behind. 

I like how the man and son on the right are posing for a picture as well :)

After some nice late afternoon naps we went to a big guang chang (huge cement square like the size of a football field). Caed joined in some dancing. An old man asked me to dance (ballroom) so I did. We bought a light flinger twirly thing and found a carnival street next to there. This is where vendors come and set up carnival type games to play. We let C choose and he chose to do this, catching baby eels with a net and putting them in a bucket. He talked about this for days to come. Gross. 

That was our first full day there. Next few days to follow!