A stroll the People's Park

Today was our last day in Nanning and finally the rain stopped so we could get out and enjoy it! We walked to the People's Park behind our hotel. We'd been there on our last trip but hadn't seen the whole park and we wanted to explore it a bit more. We fed the fish. The kids loved this!

Feeding the fish

Then we walked across the zig zag bridge and into a pavillion. One man was there with his violin and I asked him if Jade could play it. Since it was a full size violin and hers is half size she had trouble hitting the right notes.

There were a lot of rides and amusements which were empty because it was a Tuesday morning during school time. Some of the rides were being serviced. Jade wanted to go on a ride but the rest of us didn't. They were not very inviting after Disneyland. Jarrah had seen a sign for a skating rink so we kept looking for it and asking and finally we came across it. We paid for the kids to rent skates and off they went.

Jarrah had just done a few weeks of roller blading as part of his school sport curriculum so he was quite comfortable but for Jade this was her first time on skates so she spent a lot of time hanging onto the bar at the edge of the rink and slipping all over the place. By the end of the 45 minutes or so that they skated she was off the bar and starting to get the technique.

We returned to the hotel and had lunch then rested and showered in preparation for our early start tomorrow. At 5:30 we went down to the lobby to meet Michael who was the guide on our adoption trip. It was so good to see him again. He took us in his car to a lovely restaurant and we caught up about our lives over the past seven years. Tomorrow we have a wake up call at 5am and the van is coming for us at 6.