Thursday

Today we went to an embroidery business and silk manufacturer. Dropped some cash on knickknacks and just kind of walked around. The embroidery was pretty interesting and painstakingly beautiful. We got to watch a group of women practice their craft which was pretty interesting. The picture of Mao below is actually all thread and thousands and thousands of stitches.

At the silk place we saw how cocoons were turned into silk which were turned into goods which were turned into purchases by C. Just another day. We are missing home, but still enjoying the sites. Maya was great as usual. She actually gave us a breakthrough day of smiles and a couple of laughs. We hit the playroom and let her slobber on the toys. We think she may break a tooth soon. We might try to hit the pool again tomorrow.

We have made great friends with a lot of our travelmates and went out to dinner with aq bunch of them tonight. They split us into two tables for spicy and non-spicy. The food here is amazing. It is only as weird as you want to make it. We have had sausage and eggs for breakfast and we have had glass noodles and sushi. The food tonight was spicy, spicy, but so good when washed down with a local beer.

We came back and gave Maya her bath and Court is tucked into bed with her. We read that if they sleep together it promotes a better level of bonding so I will be sleeping on the other single bed Ozzie and Harriet style.